Madi Clark is a policy analyst for the Mountain States Policy Center, an independent free-market research organization based in Idaho. She served as a wildland firefighter from 2008 to 2011.
As a former wildland firefighter for four years (2008-11), peak fire season would migrate north in late summer, to our district in Eastern Oregon, but the critical practice of prescribed burning was infrequently used in our region. Twelve years later, the fire seasons still migrate north, and millions of acres continue to be destroyed annually […]