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Thirty foot flames behind fire engine.

Featured Project

Standing Dead
Salt Cedar
Rx Broadcast Burn

Bosque del Apache NWR
October 2003
Photo by: Leroy Saavedra
Two fire and smoke whirls.

The burn was to get rid of salt cedar and restore moist soil riparian area.

Fire intensity was very high with flame lengths 40 to 50 feet.

Three hundred acres were burned with help from the Forest Service, Park Service and BLM.
Photo by: Scott Russell
Charred brush stumps left after fire has passed.
Photo by: Scott Russell
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