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![A huge column of smoke rises from a 2017 “prescribed burn” in the Fishlake National Forest in Utah. Forest managers will intentionally and carefully set fires in some sections of forests to restore them to natural conditions.[Photo slightly cropped for size.]
(Image credit: Kelly Cornwall/U.S. Forest Service) A huge column of smoke rises from a 2017 “prescribed burn” in the Fishlake National Forest in Utah. Forest managers will intentionally and carefully set fires in some sections of forests to restore them to natural conditions.[Photo slightly cropped for size.]](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/legacy/image/2019/Jul/FishLake-burn2017__KellyCornwallUSFS.jpg?itok=tLE-yfNK)
A huge column of smoke rises from a 2017 “prescribed burn” in the Fishlake National Forest in Utah. Forest managers will intentionally and carefully set fires in some sections of forests to restore them to natural conditions.[Photo slightly cropped for size.] (Image credit: Kelly Cornwall/U.S. Forest Service)