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Biden administration announces plan to spend billions to prevent wildfires
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Biden administration announces plan to spend billions to prevent wildfires

The plan is an expensive one, but it is only partially funded.
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wildfire lab
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This vast wildfire lab is helping foresters prepare for a hotter planet

When the Bootleg fire tore through a nature reserve in Oregon this summer, the destruction varied in different areas. Researchers say forest management methods, including controlled burns, were a big factor.
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This vast wildfire lab is helping foresters prepare for a hotter planet
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This vast wildfire lab is helping foresters prepare for a hotter planet

When the Bootleg fire tore through a nature reserve in Oregon this summer, the destruction varied in different areas. Researchers say forest management methods, including controlled burns, were a big factor.
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bootleg fire klamath oregon
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A wildfire hits home

The Bootleg Fire has destroyed the sacred ancestral homeland of the Klamath Tribes, which constitutes the Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin People. “Our people still use these areas to hunt, gather, and pray with each other,” said Tribe Chairman Don Gentry.
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The Bootleg fire is now generating its own weather
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The Bootleg fire is now generating its own weather

Unpredictable winds, fire clouds that spawn lightning, and flames that leap over firebreaks are confounding efforts to fight the blaze, which is sweeping through southern Oregon.
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Wildfire and air quality maps: track the western U.S.

Wildfire and air quality maps: track the western U.S.

See the latest on the Beckwourth Complex, Bootleg Fire and other wildfires burning in California, Oregon and elsewhere.
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Bootleg Fire rages through Oregon, burning over 140,000 acres and threatening California’s electricity supply

Bootleg Fire rages through Oregon, burning over 140,000 acres and threatening California’s electricity supply

The fire, which has burned through over 143,000 acres, has doubled in size every day for the past three days.
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