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The Dragon Bravo fire has burned more than 5,000 acres and destroyed numerous historic Grand Canyon structures.
A new report has calculated that making national parks the responsibility of states would raise costs, cut revenue and reduce access for Arizonans.
Partial blue skies in the morning allowed many park visitors to ignore fires on the North Rim. By afternoon, ashfall made for a different story.
U.S. land managers have long known that they have a problem on their hands with overgrown forests and persistent drought.
Over 1,000 people have been assigned to fight the Dragon Bravo Fire burning near the Grand Canyon and the White Sage Fire burning farther north.
Officials in Arizona and Colorado have closed huge swaths of parkland to visitors after lightning-sparked blazes destroyed thousands of acres and hundreds of structures
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