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  "path": "/news/16022026/invasive-kudzu-vine-fuels-wildfires-in-the-south/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-16T10:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://insideclimatenews.org",
  "tags": [
    "Science",
    "Conserving Carolina",
    "Forest",
    "Forests",
    "invasive species",
    "Kudzu Vines",
    "Kudzu Warriors",
    "North Carolina",
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  "textContent": "Nearly every Monday morning, five restorationists with Conserving Carolina guide volunteers through the steep hills of Norman Wilder Forest in Tryon, North Carolina. Armed with chainsaws, thick gloves and a pickaxe-like mattock, the group goes hunting for a wily prey: kudzu. The forest’s most prominent features have been overtaken by the invasive vine. The “Kudzu […]",
  "title": "The Voracious Vine That ‘Ate the South’ Can Also Fuel Wildfires"
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