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Prescribed Burn, California, 1995

"With a roar of flaming gasoline, forester Jim Carter throws a blaze into desert scrub in southern California. Homes increasingly being built near wildlands are so threatened by fire that 'prescribed burns' are sometimes used as prevention."

—From "The Essential Element of Fire," September 1996, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Raymond Gehman