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Contents Feature - Forest fires Let it burn! The forest of fire Smoke Jumper Canada's incendiary past GIS Safe campfire Facts Cartographer's table Games CG vault Re:sources

Ice and wind storms. Tornadoes and floods. Lightning and landslides. Like most natural disasters in Canada covered by Canadian Geographic, the fury of forest fires proves no exception. See what the staff and contributors at Canadian Geographic had to say about Canada’s burning bush.

After the inferno
Northern Manitoba slowly comes back to life after the worst forest fires on record.
By Maureen Brosnahan
Canadian Geographic, December 1990/January 1991

Healing fire
Why park rangers are burning forests to save the trees.
By Don Gayton
Canadian Geographic, July/Aug 1998

Chronicle of a forest fire
Ignited by lightning, a forest fire (Timmins, Ont.) swept across 100 square kilometres in six days.
Canadian Geographic, Sept/Oct 1997

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