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FUEL It's a dangerous recipe: decades of fighting every forest fire have left many areas dangerously full of fuel--sticks, fallen timber, pine needles and brush. This year's drought has sapped the natural moisture from the ground...
...DEAL WITH THEM For much of the 20th century, Americans treated forest fires as anathema, to be stamped out wherever they occurred. But experts now believe the zero-tolerance approach did more harm than good. Fires are part of the natural rhythm of the forests, clearing out underbrush and giving trees room to grow. You don't really fight wildfires, according to this view; you only postpone them. If we are going to learn how to coexist with fire, here is how we might start...
...BUILD Fire is part of the natural life of a forest, say environmentalists; vacation houses aren't. If you don't put them up, you won't have to save them...
...BURN Fires clean out the forest; let them do their job. With more people than ever living in fire-prone areas, however, that's a tough sell...
...Crumbling and almost reclaimed by the forest, the estate is now a main attraction. A plague of monkeys swarms the entrance, aggressively eager for handouts, while a cable car with unpredictable running hours offers splendid views from a lookout just below the cupcake-shaped Italian observatory...