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From Smokey Bear to climate change: the future of wildland fire management

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imageOne more California wildfire from last year: getting more dangerous and more expensive.usfsregion5/flickr, CC BY-SA

Current conditions in the West demonstrate that our US fire management system is struggling and approaching a state of crisis. Spending on fighting fires has climbed dramatically since the 1990s. And there is...

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