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What 2,500 years of wildfire evidence and the extreme fire seasons of 1910 and 2020 tell us about the future of fire in the West

  • Written by Kyra Clark-Wolf, Postdoctoral Associate in Ecology, University of Colorado Boulder
imageRocky Mountain fires leave telltale ash layers in nearby lakes like this one.Philip Higuera

Strong winds blew across mountain slopes after a record-setting warm, dry summer. Small fires began to blow up into huge conflagrations. Towns in crisis scrambled to escape as fires bore down.

This could describe any number of recent events, in places as...

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