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A firefighter checks for hot spots by the Soberanes Fire. This fire cost $250 million and is one of the costliest fires in the history of the U.S. Photo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture via Flikr.

There’s no money to fight fire with fire

By Sarah E. McQuate on 7 November, 2016

In 2000, my husband’s cat made the news. The Cerro Grande Fire had chased his family from their home in Los Alamos, New Mexico but everything happened so fast that they didn’t have time to find their cat. When the cat ambled into the house a few hours later, firefighters caught him and stuffed him…

Has Smokey Bear’s message of forest fire prevention been taken too far? Photo credit: US Department of Agriculture via Flickr.

Rethinking Smokey

By Lindzi Wessel on 18 January, 2016

As a kid, I spent a lot of time in the woods. Every summer my parents would pack my four siblings and me into the back of our turquoise Ford Windstar and we’d set off for adventure in whatever western wilderness destination we’d chosen that year. Smokey Bear was always there to greet us as…

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