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
The 2017 Chile megafires spread across plantation and mixed landscapes at a scale that existing edge, fuel and response arrangements did not contain. This case records a context and execution failure in limiting plantat…
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