Every year, landowners in Georgia set hundreds of thousands of forest acres on fire on purpose to clear out underbrush and protect against wildfire. And increasingly, it’s for conservation.
One late spring day in April, flames crawl along the forest floor in the Dawson Forest, just outside of Dawsonville, Georgia, at the southern edge of the Blue Ridge Foothills. Firefighters plan to burn about 90 acres in the forest on a shady, wooded slope that goes down to Amicalola Creek.
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