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Oh, come off it. This might be respectable as a high school science project. "What percentage of forest fires were caused by birds?" would be one question I'd expect to see answered.

Their reports were from five years ago and covered a four-year period. They did some half-hearted Google searching, and ignored, say, [1] and [2], from agencies with a vested interest in investigating the causes of fires, or the Audobon Society [3], which of course is interested in birds and transmission lines.

[1] https://www.fs.usda.gov/search?k=fires

[2] https://www.pge.com/en_US/search/search-results.page?%26quer...

[3] https://www.audubon.org/news/transmission-lines-and-birds

parent UIUC_06 4 years ago

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