onearth: Even among once-skeptical firefighters and usually cautious scientists, there’s little doubt anymore: poor forest management and rapid development primed the West for epic fires, but global warming lit the fuse, and this devastating season has been the result. Kicking off an occasional series, former forest firefighter Michael Kodas looks at the confluence of factors that sparked record-breaking blazes across his state of Colorado, while journalist Dick Manning, a long-time chronicler of wildfires in Montana, laments our lack of preparation, even though we’ve seen this disaster coming for decades. Climate Change Fuels the Perfect Firestorm and  How the West Was Lost HIGH RES

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Even among once-skeptical firefighters and usually cautious scientists, there’s little doubt anymore: poor forest management and rapid development primed the West for epic fires, but global warming lit the fuse, and this devastating season has been the result. Kicking off an occasional series, former forest firefighter Michael Kodas looks at the confluence of factors that sparked record-breaking blazes across his state of Colorado, while journalist Dick Manning, a long-time chronicler of wildfires in Montana, laments our lack of preparation, even though we’ve seen this disaster coming for decades.

Climate Change Fuels the Perfect Firestorm

and 

How the West Was Lost

#colorado  #fire  #wildfire  #pine bark  #beetle  #disaster  #management  #climate change  #drought  
∞  07/26/12 at 10:22am via onearth.org
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