Forest management, not only climate change, contributes to wildfire severity; US policy changes around 1990 reduced controlled burning and forest management, leading California governor Jerry Brown to acknowledge forests had turned into 'carbon bombs' from poor management.
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“we stopped managing...we're allowing them to turn into carbon bombs because we're not having controlled firing, we're not cleaning underbrush”
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