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<p>Dustin Bedwell, left, and Lance Deacon, both with the Meyer farm, emerge from a smoldering bluegrass field on the Rathdrum Prairie Wednesday as 150 acres burned off after being harvested.</p>

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Prairie burning begins
August 19, 2010 9 p.m.

Prairie burning begins

About 430 acres remain to be burned this summer

COEUR d'ALENE - White smoke blended with blue sky above the Rathdrum Prairie on Wednesday afternoon as farmers started field burning for the first time this summer.