Bigger, Hotter Fires Are Slowly Erasing America’s Great Forests

https://archive.is/9wiv4

Under normal conditions, seedlings would sprout all over after a fire and the forest would return after a decade or two. But the combination of more intense fires and a warmer, drier climate has stopped this age-old process of regeneration.

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kbal@fedia.io · 1 pts · 29d (1 reply)

Mystery link is to a New York Times article.

fake_meows@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 29d

Avoiding a paywall so that the full text can be enjoyed

Here is the original URL

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/climate/wildfire-forest-loss-california-southwest.html