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Climate change and forest management have both fueled today's epic Western wildfires

  • Written by Steven C. Beda, Assistant Professor of History, University of Oregon
imageThe Riverside Fire, viewed from La Dee Flats in the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon on Sept. 9.USFS

What is driving the wildfires that are ravaging California, Oregon and Washington? President Trump and state officials have offered sharply different views.

Trump asserts that Western states haven’t done enough logging and brush clearance,...

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