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Assessing Damage After Wildfires in 4 States

Agriculture communities devastated after fires

November 30, 2020
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Kansas rancher Greg Gardiner got into some of his scorched pastures for the first time Wednesday and surveyed what he likened to a battle zone: carcasses of dead cattle everywhere.

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