Recently Montana Governor Greg Gianforte praised forest management for limiting the spread of two fires near the state capital of Helena. Gianforte suggested that active forest management (i.e., logging) helped firefighters to keep two blazes, the Grizzly Gulch and Mount Helena fires, to 25 and 18 acres, respectively. And the Governor noted that there were More

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