Fiery Year News Today

Grand Teton’s lodgepole forests are exquisitely adapted to wildfire — but can they survive a changing climate?  In 1988, a fire ecologist named Monica Turner clambered into a helicopter and soared over Yellowstone National Park’s still-smoldering forests. One fire after another had torched the park that infamous summer, ultimately burning some 800,000 acres, and Turner expected devastation. Instead she beheld a green-and-black quilt, burned forests and living ones mingled across the land...