Wildfires have become more volatile as climate change dries forests already thick with vegetation from years of intensive fire suppression. And the window for controlled burns is shrinking
A young mother s disappearance is one of five instances where Indigenous women have gone missing or been killed in this isolated expanse of Pacific coastline, a region where the Yurok, Hupa, Karuk, Tolowa and Wiyot people have coexisted for millennia