Things picked up for the Ministry of Natural Resources after a quiet
forest fire season in 2004.
The official end to season is Monday and Debbie McLean says the
Northwest Region recorded 518 fires burning over 31,000 hectares.
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McLean says most of the multiple fire starts occurred in July and
August when the east part of the Region was under a heat wave.
