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Grazing is part of multi-pronged answer to severe wildfires, says National Sheep Association

NSA says conversation must move beyond how fires start and focus on why they become so destructive

Alex Black
Deputy Editor
clock 鈥� 2 min read
Grazing is part of multi-pronged answer to severe wildfires, says National Sheep Association

Successive government policies that have reduced livestock grazing across large areas of the uplands have unintentionally increased the severity of wildfires by allowing huge fuel loads to build up, the...

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