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Rocky Mountain forests burning more now than any time in the past 2,000 years

  • Written by Philip Higuera, Professor of Fire Ecology and Paleoecology, The University of Montana
imageColorado's East Troublesome Fire jumped the Continental Divide on Oct. 22, 2020, and eventually became Colorado's second-largest fire on record.Lauren Dauphin/NASA Earth Observatory

The exceptional drought in the U.S. West has people across the region on edge after the record-setting fires of 2020. Last year, Colorado alone saw its three largest...

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