21.   However, strong winds drove the fire through the prescribed burn area, and by Thursday it was in the park and Kaibab National Forest to the north.

22.   Like the fire that burned through Los Alamos, N.M., strong winds beginning Wednesday drove this one beyond the prescribed burn area.

23.   Norton said millions of federal acres needed to be cleared of underbrush that can fuel wildfires and that has built up because of policies limiting prescribed burns.

24.   Once the fire topped the ridge, winds carried embers outside the prescribed burn area and the fire established itself on the other side.

25.   Prescribed burns and salvage logging are being done just outside the BWCA to reduce the wildfire danger.

26.   Reeling from the disastrous blaze in Los Alamos, N.M., federal officials defended prescribed burns Wednesday as critical to returning more natural fire cycles to the West.