American forests are being devastated by foreign pests—and forests full of dead trees are prone to catastrophic fires. A fire in Washington State, above.

美洲的森林被外来害虫毁坏---满是死树的森林容易招致惨重的大火。

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Before we could build we had to fire bricks and carry timber from the forests.

在我们建房前我们必须烧制砖块，从森林中采伐木材。

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The evergreen forests of the Amazon and Congo basins, for example, are generally fire-free because the closed canopy maintains a level of humidity that inhibits burning.

例如，亚马逊和刚果盆地的乔木通常是防火的，因为它们遮天的树冠保持了一定的湿度，抑制了燃烧。

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Veseth was a Type 2 firefighter, one of the agency's thousands of seasonal employees dispatched to the nation's forests during the spring and summer fire seasons.

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In 2002 a fire in Oregon's Six Rivers and Siskiyou national forests scorched 500, 000 acres of Douglas fir and ponderosa pine.

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