Catching

摘要

There's a new way of doing business in Arizona's national forests. Conservationists, land managers and loggers are collaborating to restore ponderosa pine habitats, and to stop the next megafire before it even starts. AS HE DROVE AWAY FROM THE SUMMERCABIN HE'D built outside the small Arizona town of Alpine, Gary Fanning thought it was the last he'd see of the place. "You could see the red coming over the mountain," he says. Fanning and his wife, Par, had done everything asked of homeowners in what land managers call the wildland-urban interface: installed a metal roof, trimmed low branches, removed fallen pine needles. But with smoke filling the neighborhood and marshmallow-sized embers beginning to rain down, they doubted it would make a difference.