But scientists from the University of Arizona and the University of California, Berkeley, are showing that in chaparral, California's iconic shrubland ecosystem, management can
devastate wild bird populations and that fire - risk reduction is only temporary.
Gough Island might have been largely uninhabited by humans, but 50 years later, residents of nearby islands raised questions about the unusually vicious mice that now roam the island (50 per cent heavier than
wild mice anywhere in the world) and
devastate the
bird population.