Nobody accuses loggers of deliberately burning primary rain forest.

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And on top of that, September usually starts having some rain and burning potential going down.

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The problem is that while clear-cutting sections of rain forest and burning out all the underbrush makes great soil for pastureland, it only does so for about three years.

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The notion of modifying the weather dates back at least to the eighteen-thirties, when the American meteorologist James Pollard Espy became known as the Storm King, for his (prescient but widely ridiculed) proposals to stimulate rain by selectively burning forests.

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"I was tired of being outside, in the rain, snow, burning heat, " she said.

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Some rain did fall Wednesday on a separate fire burning near Boulder, Colorado, according to the National Weather Service.

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