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KUOW's environment beat brings you stories on the ongoing cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, alternative energy, the health of the Puget Sound, coal transportation and more. We're also partnered with several stations across the Northwest to bring you environmental news via EarthFix.

'Good' Forest Fires: Should Smokey Bear Retire?

KUOW | By Allie Ferguson
Published August 31, 2015 at 3:31 PM AKDT
A roadside sign warns of fire danger during the Beaver Creek Fire in Idaho in 2013.
Flickr photo/U.S. Department of Agriculture (CC BY 2.0)
A roadside sign warns of fire danger during the Beaver Creek Fire in Idaho in 2013.

David Hyde talks to former firefighter and environmental historian Stephen Pyne, who says we should retire Smokey Bear and light more "good" fires.

Photo: 20130830-OSEC-DL-0001 by U.S. Department of Agriculture on flickr (CC BY 2.0) 
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