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Published November 29, 2017 at 320 × 480 in A Tale of Two Fires: Prescribed Fire Thwarts Wildfire on the New Mexico Prairie.
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BLM wildlife biologist Randy Howard lights a prescribed fire on the Sand Ranch in eastern New Mexico. Prescribed fires reduced fuel loads on the land, which in turn reduced the spread of the East Cato wildfire in July 2017.

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