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...dependent on fires to clear sun-filled openings. Moreover, many lodgepole pines package their seeds in resin-sealed cones that can be opened only by intense heat. "What you have to keep asking yourself is what range of fire frequency and severity a particular forest has experienced," says Tania Schoennagel, a University of Colorado researcher who studies postfire recovery. "Using forestry practices to mimic these fires is O.K., but if you mimic fires outside that forest's experience, then I think you're doing the forest harm...
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