As Fires Grow, a New Landscape Appears in the West - The New York Times

As Fires Grow, a New Landscape Appears in the West - The New York Times:



 "NEAR COCHITI CANYON, NEW MEXICO — The hills here are beautiful, a rolling, green landscape of grasses and shrubs under a late-summer sky. But it is starkly different from what was here before: vast forests of ponderosa pine. The repeated blazes that devastated the trees were caused by simple things: an improperly extinguished campfire in 1996, a tree falling on a power line in 2011."



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