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Fighting fire with fire
| Author: |
Ness, E. |
| Date: |
2003 |
| Periodical: |
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment |
| Abstract: |
On May 4, 2000, a prescribed burn in the Bandolier National Monument in New Mexico escaped into the Los Alamos National Forest. Fifteen days later, when the Cerro Grande fire was finally contained, it had burned 48,000 acres and destroyed 280 homes and 40 government labs, with an estimated price tag of $1 billion. The use of fire for ecological management also took heavy collateral damage.
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