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A perfect storm of factors is making wildfires bigger and more expensive to control

  • Written by Cassandra Moseley, Associate Vice President for Research and Research Professor, University of Oregon
The Carr Fire tears through Shasta, California, July 26, 2018.AP Photo/Noah Berger

Hopes for fewer large wildfires in 2018, after last year’s disastrous fire season, are rapidly disappearing across the West. Six deaths have been reported in Northern California’s Carr Fire, including two firefighters. Fires have scorched Yosemite,...

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