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When Fighting Wildfires Does More Harm Than Good

December 14, 2016June 14, 2017 ~ srmiller

This comic was originally published by YES! Magazine

Illustrations by Jen Luxton

Suppressing fires breaks the natural cycle of life and death crucial to forest health.

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