"focus on thinning out forests to minimize "mega fires.
"The plan is to treat up to 20 million more acres of national forest...includes removing trees and using "controlled burns" to reduce the amount of vegetation that feeds flames.
"California's 2020 fire season was record-smashing; more than 4.2 million acres burned that year compared to the previous record of nearly 1.9 million acres set in 2018
"number of homes and buildings destroyed [has risen from] 2,873 in 2014 to 12,255 in 2020."
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