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New York Times: Assessing the drivers of wildfire trends in the American West these days can be akin to Hercule Poirot’s task on the Orient Express, on which there was one murder with 12 final suspects — all of whom were guilty. For western [wild]fire (it’s hard to see how the wild part of that word applies any more, given how many human factors are involved), the suspects are a century of accumulated “fire debt” from fire suppression efforts, development and road construction, natural fluctuations in drought and......
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The Yosemite Inferno in the Context of Forest Policy, Ecology and Climate Change
Posted by New York Times: Andrew C. Revkin on August 29th, 2013
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