In today’s segment of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on wildfires, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or CalFire, Staff Chief for Prescribed Fire and Environmental Protection Len Nielson answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the too-often overlooked wildfire mitigation strategy of prescribed, or controlled, burns and about they have been demonstrated to reduce the extent and impacts of the growing threat of wildfires.