Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. I'm your host Kara Santa Maria.

This week I talk nerdy with Ecologist Chad Hansen.

It's a fascinating chat, and we will get to it very shortly.

There's only a little bit of business to attend to here

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All right guys, without further ado, why don't we just jump right in?

Like I said, I'm very pleased to introduce Dr. Chad Hanson.

He is an ecologist with the John Muir Project, and we are going to talk nerdy about forest fires.

Here he is, Chad Hansen.

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