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Science Matters Special Edition: Wildland Fire Science, October 2019

EPA is applying its extensive expertise in air quality science to the study of wildland fires to help states and communities that are impacted. This issue of Science Matters newsletter highlights some of the research projects under way by EPA and partners that are advancing the ability to assess human health and ecological impacts of wildland fires; improving tools and technologies to quantify and predict wildland fire impacts; and providing information to minimize adverse public and environmental impacts and risks.

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