Wildfires are obliterating Western forests, climate change is making it permanent
The trees were not coming back. In the years following the 2000 Walker Ranch Fire, Tom Veblen, a forest ecologist at the nearby University of Colorado, Boulder, saw that grass and shrubs were regrowing in the charred foothills, but he had to search to find the rare baby version of the tall ponderosa...
United States Bitterroot National Forest University Of Montana Plumas National Forest Walker Ranch New Mexico
Source: peoplesworld.org