Drought raises the stakes of New Hampshire’s relationship to fire This spring has been a busy one for New Hampshire’s wildland firefighters. The drought that made last summer the driest in 130 years has kept soils and forests parched into this spring, the conditions contributing to wildfires that have burned dozens of acres in central New Hampshire to the North Country in recent weeks. The […]
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This spring has been a busy one for New Hampshire’s wildland firefighters. The drought that made last summer the driest in 130 years has kept soils and forests parched into this spring, the conditions contributing to wildfires that have burned dozens of acres in central New Hampshire to the North Country in recent weeks. The […]
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