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Science 1 September 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5484, pp. 1448 - 1449
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5484.1448b
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ECOLOGY:
Forest Fire Plan Kindles Debate

John S. MacNeil

Forest fires burning in the western United States have already scorched over 2.5 million hectares this summer. Now a federal proposal to prevent them by paying loggers to cut smaller trees is generating heat among ecologists, who say the approach may not be right for all forests--or all fires.

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