According to a recent summer forecast, fire danger varies across the state. Ryan Warner talks with Tim Mathewson, fire meteorologist for the inter-agency Rocky Mountain Coordination Area. He also speaks with US Forest Service natural resource specialist Jim Krugman – who's helping plan ways to combat possible wildfires, in areas hit by the mountain pine beetle epidemic.
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