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by Amanda Breshears1 view·Updated Oct 10, 2021
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  1. Force cover approximately one third of the world's Land Area
  2. Force are a vital part of environmental services like climate
  3. regulation. Soil protection and water management forests also produce food
  4. and raw materials that millions of people rely on managing
  5. forests contribute to important services such as carbon sequestration, water
  6. and soil, biodiversity conservation, and responding to climate change.
  7. Unmanaged forests are put out of greater risk of wildfire.
  8. Wildfires are severely harmful to our environment and our health
  9. as they produce toxic smoke and carbon emissions.
  10. Wildfires can be reduced by removing excess fuels from our
  11. forests. Ways of managing forests include timber harvests, thinning and
  12. prescribed fires are essential to improving our forests.
  13. Health prescribed fires are the most effective way to reduce
  14. dangerous accumulations of combustible fuels.
  15. Wild fires that occur and managed forests are easier to
  16. control and cause less damage.
  17. Prescribed fires are also the most effective and practical means
  18. of controlling insect and disease that would otherwise ravaged in
  19. many species of our trees, seedlings and plants throughout the
  20. forest, prescribed fires are also beneficial and encouraging the growth
  21. of native vegetation and sustaining the many plants and animal
  22. habitats whose lives depend on periodic fires.