Monday, August 28, 2017

How a snake-eating hawk started a huge Montana wildfire

Earlier this week, a fire blazed through about 40 acres of Montana grassland. For about an hour, the flames burned across the dry landscape in the northern part of the state, about 155 miles south of the Canadian border. The cause was a mystery until volunteer firefighters finally found the crisped culprit. When firefighters found the burnt body of a hawk clutching a snake, they knew they'd found the spark. 

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