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On a long, recent trudge through forest burned in California’s 2020 Castle Fire, a six-person survey crew peered at a curiosity in the distance.
“We saw a little tiny smudge of white and wondered if it was snow on a distant slope,” said Nate Stephenson, a forest scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Upon closer inspection, it wasn’t snow. It was smoke, coming…