Not all trees fuel wildfires: Aspen tree species can actually slow or even stop them

When a wildfire is tearing through a conifer forest, the assumption is usually that trees are simply fuel, more vegetation means a bigger, faster moving fire. Two recent studies, one covering the southwestern United States and another examining Canada's entire boreal forest, suggest that assumption does not hold for every tree species.

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