<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">The Wall Street Journal </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="">Oct. 5, 2019 12:01 am ET</span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Chief U.S. Forester Vicki Christiansen Thinks Some Fires Should Be Left to Burn</b></span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class="">The Forest Service’s leader faces a growing challenge: ever more American homes built in areas that rely on fire as a natural part of their ecosystems</span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class=""><i class="">By</i> <i class="">Chris Kornelis</i></span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><p style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class="">Only you can prevent forest fires, as the old television ad said, but the nation’s top forester wants to let a few burn.</span></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class="">A raging fire tends to be seen as a disaster, even a failure of forest management. But Vicki Christiansen—the chief of the U.S. Forest Service, who spent 26 years as a wildland firefighter—says that fire is an essential part of many landscapes’ natural ecosystems. Not only would it be impossible to suppress every blaze, she wouldn’t do it if she could. Forest fire, she says, is something the nation has to...</span></p><p style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none;" class="">The rest is behind paywall here</span></p><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/chief-u-s-forester-vicki-christiansen-thinks-some-fires-should-be-left-to-burn-11570248061?" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.wsj.com/articles/chief-u-s-forester-vicki-christiansen-thinks-some-fires-should-be-left-to-burn-11570248061?&source=gmail&ust=1570373648453000&usg=AFQjCNEqBvopi-m9808g7LdznysAVWBdbQ" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://www.wsj.com/articles/<wbr class="">chief-u-s-forester-vicki-<wbr class="">christiansen-thinks-some-<wbr class="">fires-should-be-left-to-burn-<wbr class="">11570248061?</a></span></div></body></html>