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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    How the Santa Monica Mountains are faring after the Woolsey Fire

    The Woolsey fire has devastated 100,000 acres, including 88 percent of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. It’s a vast park where lots of animals live, and where hikers, bird-watchers, and nature enthusiasts love to visit.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Nov 20, 2018 • 1 min read

    The Woolsey fire has devastated 100,000 acres, including 88 percent of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. It’s a vast park where lots of animals live, and where hikers, bird-watchers, and nature enthusiasts love to visit. Just two years ago, park service employees completed an extensive system of hiking trails -- half a century’s worth of work. On Friday, biologists were allowed in to survey the damage.

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    The full episode

    3 of 5
    Cramped shelters, illnesses, few resources: Camp Fire evacuees feel the strain
    1. 0:00How Camp Fire evacuees are faring
    2. 7:44What are better ways to alert and evacuate people when a fire comes?
    3. 15:05How the Santa Monica Mountains are faring after the Woolsey FireYou’re reading this
    4. 24:15New PBS documentary looks at Neo-Nazis and hate in America
    5. 38:42After beating the Chiefs, what are the Rams’ playoff chances?
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