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Starting more than 60 years ago, a complex of four forest fires occurring at six-year intervals burned almost 400 square miles of
virgin Douglas-fir forest in the northwestern Coast Range of Oregon. The area, which became known as the Tillamook Burn, was the focus
of an unprecedented reforestation effort drawing...