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A. Yes, some fires thin out small trees, brush and weeds on the ground. However, intense and abnormal crown fires burn everything in their path and leave a landscape of dead trees and sterile soil. In the past ten years, over 50 million acres of land has burned—much of it treasured lands with ecological and economic value.
