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| | Healing power of fire - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Local - News |
 | | In globally rare pitch pine and scrub oak barrens, for example, trees produce cones that release their seeds only when heated by fire, he said, and some animal species such as harriers (a kind of hawk), the grasshopper sparrow, and the barrens buckmoth require the bare landscape conditions following a fire to thrive. |
 | | Thirty-six to 48 hours before the fire is set, the conservancy will inform other participants in the prescribed fire area that one has been scheduled, and will proceed if the weather cooperates. |
 | | The fire kills the tops of the trees but the root system is intact, he said, and so the tops grow back. |
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