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Fire from the sky changed everything

By Paul Fattig
Medford Mail Tribune

Twenty years ago today, the Silver fire complex ignited, and forest science has never been the same since

When sizzling lightning storms peppered southwestern Oregon on the evening of Aug. 30, 1987, Dave Perry was already a well-respected forestry professor at Oregon State University.  Read more…

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