California Wildfires

The World

Stephanie O’Neill reports from Pasadena on the environmental aftermath of California’s recent fires. The fires were bad news for at least two species of threatened birds living in the area. But in the long run, biologists assert that fire is a necessary part of the area’s ecology.

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