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The Enterprise –– Michael Koff

Practicing to be a woodland firefighter, a ball-capped boy, center, with his sister to his left and mother behind him, squirts water from an Indian tank towards targets with guidance from an Albany Pine Bush volunteer. He was timed during the prescribed-fire obstacle course at the annual Smokey Bear Day on Oct. 13 at the Discovery Center in Albany. Since 1991, the Albany Pine Bush Preserve commission has managed more than 1,400 acres with prescribed fire, helping the endangered Karner blue butterfly and other species to recover.