BURNED: Stalled U.S. Forest Service projects expose California communities to catastrophic wildfires
b'\\u201cBURNED,\\u201d a yearlong investigation from the California Newsroom, reveals how the U.S. Forest Service is struggling to complete the work it knows it must do to keep Californians safe from wildfires. For decades, the agency has developed projects to thin and manage overgrown forests in an effort to reduce wildfire intensity. But those plans routinely stall out, and sometimes are abandoned completely.'