Norm McDonald, the state Division of Forestry's Chief of Fire and Aviation, says all it would take to go from an average fire season to a huge one is some hot, dry weather and a lightning strike, or the careless burning of some brush or a campfire.
May 11, 2022
Alaska’s wildland firefighters have been completing annual training and — now with help from a state grant — strategically cutting and removing trees, many of them standing, dry and dead, killed by spruce beetles.
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