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Before she became a California farmworker, Guadalupe Rodriguez grew corn with her family on their land in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Each year they used fire to clear the ground and get it ready for planting.

After being evacuated three times because of raging wildfires in Sonoma County, Rodriguez is now learning how to use fire and other natural methods to make Sonoma’s hilly fields and woodlands more resilient to out-of-control infernos that have repeatedly forced her and thousands of others to flee.