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The Yosemite Inferno In the Context of Forest Policy, Ecology and Climate Change

Posted by samzenpus on from the since-the-world's-been-turning dept.

Lasrick writes "Andrew Revkin at DotEarthblog posts an assessment of the drivers of wildfire trends in the American West. He shows a graph of fire activity for the past 400 years in the Yosemite-Mariposa area, and a rather surreal time-lapse video of the current Rim Fire now burning in and around Yosemite."

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  1. Re:Tree killers by PPH · · Score: 1, Troll

    We don't want to see blackened areas in our parks even though it is necessary to protect them from bigger fires.

    We don't want some banker's hunting lodge burned down.

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  2. Re:so its not global warming? by PPH · · Score: 1, Troll

    You embarrassed? I'm not.

    You can't answer my question either: Why does a 10K year old old growth forest not contain 10x the carbon of a 1K year old one?

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  3. Re:so its not global warming? by PPH · · Score: 1, Troll

    Flippant answer: You still can't come up with an explanation.

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