Playing with fire

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Land managers in Alaska do not follow the forest fire philosophy of the US. Instead of extinguishing wildfires at once, fire fighters allow the fire to spread reasonably. Land managers explain that fire also helps the ecology by making forests more fertile.

Author: Simpson, Sherry
Cover Story, Environmental aspects, Fire extinction, Firefighting, Fire prevention, Forest fires, Forest fire control

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Pleistocene man: mammoths, mastadons and sabertooth tigers still roam R. Dale Guthrie's Alaska

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R. Dale Guthrie is a paleontologist who has uncovered many fossils in Alaska. Guthrie maintains that the Alaskan landscape represents a world long gone and studying it provides insights on the forces that rendered these ancient animals extinct.

Author: Simpson, Sherry
Behavior, Natural history, Paleontologists, Guthrie, R. Dale

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