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Gunflint trail

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'This fire is not over for us': 3 years after the Greenwood Fire
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'This fire is not over for us': 3 years after the Greenwood Fire

The remote village of Isabella endured the brunt of the 2021 Greenwood Fire, leaving behind a burned landscape, piles of waste, and lots of questions.

Sprinklers in the forest: How lake water can protect northern Minnesota properties from fire and how they might fail
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Sprinklers in the forest: How lake water can protect northern Minnesota properties from fire and how they might fail

15 years after federal dollars funded sprinkler programs in northern Minnesota their success relies on local maintenance.

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