Break plantation continuity near settlements
#00274
Create maintained transitions, lower-fuel zones and access around settlements adjoining plantations to reduce concentrated exposure and support defense.
Forest owners and Chilean fire-management authorities · since 2017 · Region
During the January 2017 Chilean megafires, plantation and mixed landscapes in central and south-central Chile burned at a scale that existing edge treatments, fuel breaks, and fire-response arrangements could not contai…
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