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How Humans Have Made Wildfires Worse
August 5, 2018 /
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Beginning in the late 19th century, the U.S. government established a policy of fire suppression. Wildfires were seen as "the moral and mortal enemy of the forests" according to one Joint Fire Science Program report they damaged agricultural land and destroyed valuable timber.
Sarah Kaplan – The Washington Post
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