Tag: gigafire
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Return to Fire: Native Americans’ Work to Reclaim Their Right to Fire
2020 saw one of the deadliest wildfires in California. At the end of the year, 10,000 fires burned over 4.2 million acres of land. [1] One wildfire in August, called the Complex fire, began as 38 separate fires that combined into the first “gigafire” due to its burning of over 1 million acres of land. [2] In addition, there…
Barry Law Environmental and Earth Law Journal 