President Trump says there's little to fear if Fourth of July fireworks return to Mount Rushmore National Memorialafter more than a decade."What can burn? It's stone," said Trump in January, referring to the granite mountain sculpture in South Dakota'sBlack Hills that features the carved faces of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln(Greenwire, Jan. 16).But a new environmental assessment by the National Park Service concludes there is plenty of risk, including amore than 60% chance of a "modest wildfire," and possibly more contaminated groundwater, more litter that maynever be removed from rough terrain and more burn marks on the sculpture itself."The most likely wildfire scenario would be confined entirely to the memorial," the study says.
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