It's that time of year again in California, tuning into any news source from twitter to tv means images of wildfires, yellow-clad firefighters, and the people affected by these events. But there's more to the story of wildfire than these images can portray. In this article from American Scientist, Max A. Moritz and Scott Gabriel Knowles discuss the bigger pictures of wildfire and offer suggestions on how to coexist with this force of nature in the future.
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