We need every tool to fight today’s fires

We know now that the largest recorded fire in New Mexico history was started by an escaped “prescribed burn,” or…
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The Pleistocene epoch that began 2.6 million years ago sent ice in waves through Yosemite. Glaciers gouged out great valleys…
Photo by Laurel Balyeat, Yosemite Park
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Fire in the West is expected, and not so long ago, it seemed something the West experienced more than anywhere…
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That the scene has become familiar makes it no less wrenching: A distraught couple searches through the ash, char, and…
U.S. Forest Service Photo 2007. Grass Valley Fire in Southern California’s San Bernadino Mountains
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As I look out my window, the smoke from the Bush fire is belching upward behind the fabled profile of…
Photograph by Marcus Kaufman, courtesy of Unsplash
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