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<div><font face="Arial"><b>Drought</b> leaves Edmonton's urban<b>
forest</b> shedding branches</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2">CBC.ca</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2"><b>Drought</b> leaves Edmonton's
urban<b> forest</b> shedding branches ... Jeannette Wheeler, the
city's supervisor of urban<b> forests</b>, said this is the driest
year ...</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Summer<b> drought</b> sparks more brush fires
than usual<font size="-1"><br>
</font><font size="-2">Miami Herald</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2">Across Miami-Dade and Broward
counties, 81 brush fires have singed nearly 6,363 acres over the past
3 1/2 months, according to the Florida<b>
Forest</b> ...</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial">Vancouver Island's largest<b> forest</b> fire
happened during similar<b> drought</b>-filled summer<font
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-2">A Duncan author and historian says
there are some parallels between this summer and the summer when
Vancouver Island saw its largest recorded ...</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial"><b>Drought</b>-stricken California is burning,
flooding at the same time</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2">Washington Post</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2">Amid California's historic<b>
drought</b>, an even rarer weekend downpour that calmed wildfires also
... [The West is so dry even a rain<b> forest</b> is on
fire].</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial"><b>Drought</b> and climate change fuel
high-elevation California fires, study finds<font size="-1"><br>
</font><font size="-2">Daily Democrat</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2">Wildfires in California's fabled
Sierra Nevada mountain range are increasingly burning
high-elevation<b> forests</b>, which historically have seldom
burned, ...</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial">BC declares highest<b> drought</b> level for
Lower Fraser, south coast<font size="-1"><br>
</font><font size="-2">The Globe and Mail</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2">British Columbia's<b> Forests</b>
Minister says soaring temperatures and paltry ... for northeastern
B.C., but that would hardly be enough to end the<b>
drought</b> ...</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><b>Drought</b>, fires in Saskatchewan's
future</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2">Saskatoon StarPhoenix</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2">All the models point to continued
warming," he said. That means more<b> forest</b> fires, but also
more extreme swings between flood and<b> drought</b> than
ever ...</font><br>
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<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#000000">"How does one
justify trying to cope with what may be intractable problems? The very
nature of the question belies its origins in the assumption of science
that one has to believe that all problems are solvable."<br>
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Seymour Sarason. The Nature of Problem Solving in Social Action.<i>
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" 'Triage' is a dirty word in some conservation circles, but like
many dirty words, it describes something common. Whether they admit it
or not, conservationists have long had to make decisions about what to
save.<br>
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"As more and more admit it, open discussion about how the
decisions are best made -- by concentrating on particular species, or
particular places, or absolute costs, or any other criterion --
becomes possible. Whichever criteria come into play, one thing remains
constant. The decisions have to be made quickly."<br>
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Emma Marris, "What To Let Go."<br>
NATURE November 8, 2007</font></div>
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