Healthy Forests Fire Up

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Wildfire season has come early to parts of the American West and some in Congress complain the Bush administration is ill-prepared to fight or prevent fires, despite the promises of the President’s healthy forests initiative. Jeff Young reports from Washington while Ingrid Lobet has a look at what’s happening in the fire-prone forests of Southern California.

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