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August 22, 2000 U.S. Weighs a Plan to Enhance Forests' Resistance to Fires By DOUGLAS JEHL Jeff Topping for The New York Times A fire in the Kaibab National Forest in June largely spared a 90-acre triangular area that had been thinned. Related Article 2 Forest Fires Go Unchecked in California Jeff Topping for The New York Times A crew working to thin Coconino National Forest near Flagstaff, Ariz.
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August 12, 2000 As Western Wildfires Rage, Assessing Blame Becomes a Central Issue By DOUGLAS JEHL with ROSS E. MILLOY The Associated Press Wildfires are continuing to burn in several states in the West. Soldiers from Fort Hood, Tex., arrived on a Blackhawk helicopter this week to fight the Burgdorf Junction fire, about 30 miles north of McCall, Idaho. WESTERN FIRES Related Articles Wildfires ...
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August 31, 2000 Cost of Fighting Fires in West Is Expected to Pass $1 Billion By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WESTERN FIRES Related Articles A Time of Fires, Fatigue, Cash and the U.S.0. (Aug. 26, 2000) Fire Forces Limits in Access to Montana Counties (Aug. 23, 2000) U.S. Weighs Plan to Limit Spread of Forest Fires (Aug. 22, 2000) 2 Forest Fires Go Unchecked in California (Aug. 22, 2000) Official Warns ...
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August 13, 2000 Disaster Agency Promises Immediate Fire Aid By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WESTERN FIRES Related Articles Firefighters Feeling Strain Across West (August 9, 2000) Clinton Visits Idaho Site to Give Thanks and Aid (August 9, 2000) Idaho Governor Says Fires in West May Rage Till Fall (August 6, 2000) Forest Service: More Army troops, Canadians to Fight Western Fires (August 5, 2000) ...
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August 17, 2000 Forest Service Is Scrambling to Find Enough Firefighters By THE NEW YORK TIMES Susana Raab for The New York Times Harry Croft is a deputy director at the United States Forest Service. WESTERN FIRES Related Articles Disaster Agency Promises Immediate Fire Aid (August 13, 2000) As Western Wildfires Rage, Assessing Blame Becomes a Central Issue (August 12, 2000) Wildfires Knock Out ...
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August 6, 2000 Idaho Governor Says Fires in West May Rage Till Fall By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press The Pechanga fire burned down a mountain runoff near Temecula, Calif., on Friday. Over 6, 880 acres have burned in seven days. The fire is 15 percent contained. At Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, a new fire forced the nation's largest archaeological preserve to close again, ...
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August 19, 2000 Official Warns That Little Can Be Done to Stop Fires By DOUGLAS JEHL The Associated Press A giant plume of smoke rose Friday along a highway in western Montana, where wildfires have burned more than 470, 000 acres. WESTERN FIRES Related Articles Disaster Agency Promises Immediate Fire Aid (August 13, 2000) As Western Wildfires Rage, Assessing Blame Becomes a Central Issue (August ...
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August 10, 2000 Population Trends Heighten West's Fire Woes By ROSS E. MILLOY The Associated Press Rob Cadwallader hugged one of his 10 dogs Wednesday and gave water to another at an evacuation site in Sula, Mont. WESTERN FIRES Related Articles Firefighters Feeling Strain Across West (August 9, 2000) Clinton Visits Idaho Site to Give Thanks and Aid (August 9, 2000) Idaho Governor Says Fires in ...
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August 20, 2000 Why Foresters Prefer to Fight Fire With Fire By TIMOTHY EGAN United States Forest Service After the Big Burn, in 1910. Fires aren't always as bad as they look, forest experts say. EATTLE -- Exactly ninety years ago, on Aug. 20, 1910, in the choking heat of a summer without rain in the northern Rockies, the sun disappeared from the sky and a sound not unlike cannon fire began ...
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