New York Times: Heres a Your Dot contribution on the many benefits of managing fires in forests, savannah and peatlands including slowing global warming, protecting threatened ecosystems and reducing noxious palls of haze. It comes from Lindon N. Pronto, a young former federal wildland firefighter from California who is completing a master of science degree in environmental governance at the University of Freiburg in Germany. Pronto also works at the Global Fire Monitoring Center at the Max Planck Institute...