MPR News with Angela Davis

What’s fueling northeastern Minnesota’s wildfires?

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A firefighting aircraft drops water on a wildfire burning in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on Tuesday, near Ely, Minn. Multiple wildfires burning across northeastern Minnesota prompted officials to close the entire BWCA and expand evacuation orders on Tuesday morning.
Courtesy photo of Eric Bailey

MPR News guest host Kelly Gordon talks with a forest ecologist about what's behind the fires burning in and near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, why they're so difficult to contain and what we can do to reduce wildfire risk.

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Lee Frelich, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Forest Ecology, poses for a portrait at Minnesota Public Radio headquarters in St. Paul on Wednesday.
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Guest:

  • Lee Frelich is the director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Forest Ecology.

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