Smokey was wrong. You can’t prevent wildfires, and you shouldn’t try.

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By Aura BogadoJun 30, 2016, 1:14 pm219 pts
Richard Minnich, a professor of science at University of California at Riverside, likes to play a word game that sums up how confused the general public is about wildfires. It starts with a well-known slogan. “Smokey the Bear says, ‘Only you can prevent forest fires,’” Minnich says, then takes a…

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