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Fort McMurray wildfire: Boreal forests designed to burn, makes fighting it a challenge

May 3, 2016

During an update on the Fort McMurray wildfire, Bernie Schmitte, forestry manager in Fort McMurray, explains how a Boreal forest is a fire-dependant ecosystem that adapts itself to being easily ignitable.

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