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Fighting fire with fire: How prescribed burns protect forests in northern Arizona

Kate Duffy Cronkite News//November 8, 2023//

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Fighting fire with fire: How prescribed burns protect forests in northern Arizona

Forest Service, wildfires, controlled burns

Ashton Johnson uses his drip torch during a prescribed burn operation in Kaibab National Forest on Oct. 5, 2023. (Photo by Kevinjonah Paguio / Cronkite News)

Fighting fire with fire: How prescribed burns protect forests in northern Arizona

Kate Duffy Cronkite News//November 8, 2023//

By Kate Duffy Cronkite News It was just before 8 a.m. on a clear fall day, when trucks carrying fire crews barreled down dirt roads into Kaibab National Forest. Shortly...

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Tags: Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, nitrogen, smoke, fire exposure, forests, Kendrick Prescribed Fire Project, prescribed burns, dead trees, dead plants, Inflation Reduction Act, Kaibab National Forest, forest fires, wildfires, build-up of fuels, forest fuels, Northern Arizona University, native plant species

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