Maple Fire
The Maple Fire was a wildfire on Jefferson Ridge in the Olympic Mountains, approximately 23 miles north of Shelton, Washington in the United States. The fire was caused by illegal logging activities, and the resulting criminal trial was the first time that tree DNA has ever been used in a federal trial in the United…
Where it happened
United States, as Wikidata places it.
- Wildfires
The record
- Date
- August 4, 2018
- Ended
- November 1, 2018
- Kind
- Wildfire
- Where
- United States
- Country
- United States
What happened
The Maple Fire was a wildfire on Jefferson Ridge in the Olympic Mountains, approximately 23 miles north of Shelton, Washington in the United States. The fire was caused by illegal logging activities, and the resulting criminal trial was the first time that tree DNA has ever been used in a federal trial in the United States.
Sources
Wikidata Q110587244 (CC0); text from Wikipedia, “2018 Maple Fire”, CC BY-SA 4.0.