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magazine / ja03 / indepth
Canada's burning bush
Cartographer's table
Fire attack zones
Maps by Steven Fick
All fires in Saskatchewan's full-response zone (below, left) are suppressed. In the modified-response zone,
fires are assessed and action is taken if they can be extinguished in two days. After that, they are monitored
until favourable weather allows them to be
contained cost-effectively. More than two million hectares burned across Canada in 2002 (below, right).
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