A podcast challenges us to reassess our relationship with wildfires

United by Fire
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Available wherever you get your podcasts

For hundreds of millions of years, wildfires were directed solely by the weather, vegetation and terrain. But in the last century in the United States, people have sought to suppress even those beneficial fires that would otherwise clear out dead vegetation, which can fuel wildfires, and stimulate new growth. Now, catastrophic megafires erupt each year, and in some places, climate change has extended the fire season. Clearly something has to give — our society must change its relationship with fire.

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