Climate change to fuel wildfires in West

By On August 15, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Climate Change, Wildfire

Seems pretty intuitive to me :

Report: Climate change to fuel wildfires in West – SignOnSanDiego.com

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2 Responses to Climate change to fuel wildfires in West

  1. avatar JEFF E says:
    January 22, 2009 at 6:49 pm

    also:
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28773860/

  2. avatar kt says:
    January 22, 2009 at 9:12 pm

    I’m kinda suspicious that the range and land grant folks and some others may be trying to set the stage for “triage” and landscape manipulation. We’ll see.

    And here is a NY Times article about climate:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/us/23trees.html?hp

    In this article, I am struck by a simple concept from Forestry 101 that I had forgotten – self-thinning. One of the main “sins” of junipers and pinyon 100-200 according to the Univ of Nevada Reno “range” types is that they are claimed to be too dense. Duh — they are trees. Leave ’em alone and they are likely to self-thin.

    if we try to intervene and manipulate this all – it will be guaranteed to be a disaster.

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