Fighting wildfires has become increasingly challenging due to a warming climate. Here in New Jersey, the state Department of Environmental Protection’s Forest Fire Service has partnered with the U.S. Department of Defense to help protect properties adjacent to military installations in the Pinelands, a region particularly prone to wildfires due to the dominant tree and plant species and porous sandy soil found there.

Through the Department of Defense’s Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Challenge Program, “the…