[Cdt-l] Cost-wary Forest Service now tries to tamp out every flame

[Brett]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48707586/ns/us_news-environment/#.UDBhw6CjOSo

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — If lightning strikes in the New Mexico wilderness and 
starts a fire, the blaze would normally be little more than a blip on 
the radar of land managers who have earned a reputation for letting 
flames burn to keep forested lands from growing into a tangled mess.


    
This season is different. Now firefighters are trekking deep into the Gila National Forest with trains of equipment-carrying horses and one overriding goal:
 snuffing out all fires, no matter how small or remote.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48707586/ns/us_news-environment/#.UDBhw6CjOSo
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