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Alternate Text: Prairie fire with flaming grass in foreground and flaming red cedar trees in background
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Prairie fire with flaming grass in foreground and flaming red cedar trees in background

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A fire burning in South Dakota on April 9, 2017. Invasive Eastern red cedar trees give prairie fires an intensity that grass alone would not produce. Photo courtesy USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service Flickr. Used under a Creative Commons license.