The Wildfire Solution That Could Also Help Our Affordable Housing Crisis

It's called cross-laminated timber, or CLT.by Nathalie GrahamPrescribed fire is good fire.RONBAILEY/GETTYIMAGES.COM
Hilary Franz, the current commissioner of the Washington Department of Natural Resources, watched the Carlton Complex Fire, a 2014 firestorm that cost Washington around $98 million in damages, tear through canyons. It moved quickly, eating up forest and spitting out smoke. The blaze was unfathomably huge—a "crown" fire, a type of fire where the flames licked the upper part of