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Alexandra Syphard, senior research scientist with the Conservation Biology Institute and the director of science for the Global Wildfire Collective. The Trump administration wants to open up more protected forest land to roads, arguing that this will allow firefighters easier access to fight blazes. Syphard contends that roads themselves provide places for more fires to start. (NPR)
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