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Amid clamor to increase prescribed burns, obstacles await

by Andrew Selsky
| June 21, 2021 9:30 PM

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — In the 1950s, when University of California forestry professor Harold Biswell experimented with prescribed burns in the state's pine forests, many people thought he was nuts.

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