Planned fires reduce dangerous fuels, Prescribed fires nourish the soil, and the habitat for endangered animals improves after prescribed fires.
A simple sentence has only one independent clause. A compound sentence has at least two independent clauses. A complex sentence has one independent clause and at least one dependent. A compound-complex sentence has at least two independent clauses and one dependent.
Having this in mind, 1. is a complex sentence, and 2. is also a complex sentence.
I'VE READ THIS IT'S A GREAT BOOK!
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Liberating is a Gerund because it ends in -ing.
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