Forest Service chief warns of more severe wildfires
By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal
A combination of forest restoration projects, creation of communities that can survive fire and aggressive fire fighting will be needed as wildfire danger increases across the country, the chief of the U.S. Forest Service said Tuesday.
Wildfires are getting larger and burning more fiercely, Tom Tidwell told a Reno conference of wildfire experts.
Warming climate and increasing development near forested terrain will result in increasingly dangerous fire behavior, Tidwell, chief of the Forest Service since June 2009, said.