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Stanford -led study published in AGU Advances finds prescribed burns can help reduce wildfire risks.
Experts consider prescribed burns an effective strategy to reduce the threat of wildfires.
The use of prescribed burning in western states has expanded only slightly in recent years .
The study addresses concerns about smoky air from prescribed burning, finding that the approach produces only about 17% of the smoke that would be emitted by a wildfire.
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