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“Generally speaking, what firefighters were reporting on the ground is that when the fire came into those areas that had been thinned . it had significantly less impact.” The reports were bittersweet for researchers, who still saw nearly 20 square miles of the preserve burn, but the findings add to a growing body of research about how to make wildfires less explosive by thinning undergrowth and allowing forests to burn periodically as they naturally would do instead of snuffing out every flame. The Bootleg Fire, now 606 square miles (1,569 square kilometers) in size, has ravaged southern Oregon and is the fourth-largest fire in the state s modern history. It s been expanding by up to 4 miles (6 kilometers) a day, pushed by gusting winds and critically dry weather that s turned trees and undergrowth into a tinderbox.

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