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“But it’s questionable that any amount of “thinning” could protect Ashland from a wind-driven firestorm coming out of the watershed.”
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“..many of the men and women who fight those fires on our behalf are suffering from burnout”
Image of Harrison Raine setting a backfire to stop wildfire from spreading
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