Photo essay: Communities embrace fire to protect against out-of-control blazes

In Roslyn, Washington, roughly 30 people from multiple fire districts conducted a prescribed burn across a 55-acre parcel, using a preliminary 'backing fire' to establish containment lines before igniting the main burn.

The technique cleared underbrush while sparing most mature trees, part of a broader effort to ring the town with burned and thinned land as a buffer against future wildfires.

Local leaders have turned one burned area into a tourist attraction, the Forest Resilience Trail, arguing that fire used deliberately is an act of restoration rather than destruction.

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