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Environment
5:30 am
Mon July 23, 2012

Fewer Forest Fires Mean Fewer Habitats

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Firefighter cadets with spray packs ensure that a small prescribed burn at the Concord airport doesn't get out of hand.
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Setting a "black line" is a wildfire fighting technique. If there is no fuel to burn, fires can be stopped in their tracks.
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A hastily carved out "scratch line" where sticks and leaves have been scraped away can also stymie a fire.
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Here is are Pine Barrens in May before the burn
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A few months later, in July, the Barrens have bounced back after the burn, though some larger shrubs have been shortened.
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Heidi Holman shows why the burn wasn't entirely successful: it wasn't hot enough to burn the "duff layer" and get down to the sandy soil that lupine needs.
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The tools of the firefighting trade.
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Wildfires out West and in New Hampshire have been making headlines this spring and summer. Wildfires have burned 177 acres in the Granite State this year, damaging twelve buildings and injuring three people.

But when there aren’t any fires it can also lead to problems. Now some organizations have to set fires on purpose, to preserve a vanishing habitat.

If you want to get an idea what some parts of New Hampshire used to look like, you’ve got to find a spot where people don’t live. Like, alongside an airport runway.

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Around the Nation
2:02 pm
Wed March 28, 2012

In Colorado, Chaotic Evacuation After Initial Blaze

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A home at left stands untouched while the one at right smolders after burning in the Lower North Fork Wildfire in the foothills southwest of Denver on Tuesday.
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A home at left stands untouched while the one at right smolders after burning in the Lower North Fork Wildfire in the foothills southwest of Denver on Tuesday.
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Smoke envelops the foothills as the Lower North Fork Wildfire burns near Conifer.
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Flames rise from a propane tank near a home destroyed by a wildfire burning in Conifer.
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A plume of smoke rises over the top of a wildfire burning out of control near Conifer, Colo., on Monday. High winds fanned the fire and kept aircraft from being used to knock it down.
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Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 10:55 am

A wildfire in the foothills southwest of Denver continues to burn out of control. It's destroyed dozens of homes and buildings, and with two people confirmed dead and another missing, it looks to be Colorado's deadliest wildfire in decades.

A day and a half after the fire started, the weather at the command post is so beautiful it's hard to imagine the nearby blaze is raging almost out of control. Mark Techmeyer of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department calls the Lower North Fork Wildfire a monster.

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NH News
3:33 pm
Tue March 20, 2012

Wildfire Season Comes Early

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The state agency responsible for protecting forests from wildfires is warning that state forests are more at risk of burning this year.

Forest Ranger Bryan Nowell says state forests are now seeing conditions that usually are more typical of mid-April.

"That's due to the fact that pretty much since the first of the year we haven’t had a lot of snow events or rain events, so all the leaves and brush and debris that’s come down over the winter has been there drying all winter long," Nowell says.

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