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Wildfires Increasing

Vulnerability to wildfires is steadily increasing as more homes are built in the foothills. The 1992 Foothills Fire destroyed 257,000 acres of range and forest land. In August of 1996, 15,300 acres of the Boise Foothills were burned by a wildfire. Check out these wildfire-related links:

Image of forest fire from Maceda, Galicia / Spain - Oct 16 2017