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A combined task force of fire crews continue to attack northern California's Reading Fire in Lassen Volcanic National Park and Lassen National Forest that as of Aug. 18, 2012 had burned nearly 28,000 acres and is only 32 percent contained.
With no immediate containment in sight, northern California's Reading Fire continues to burn inside Lassen Volcanic National Park, forcing the closure of roads, campgrounds and many trails to park visitors.
An unrelated series of recent climber deaths at National Parks in the West have spurred a call for increased caution and better preparedness.
Guardian Rock and the Crystal Creek Falls trails have reopened in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area in northern California, a unit of the National Park Service, and are now accessible to visitors who require the use of a wheel chair or walker.
It started in 1859 as a squabble over a dead pig, but it might have escalated into a war in the Pacific Northwest between the United States and Great Britain.
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