National Public Radio: Fire scientists are calling it "the new normal": a time of fires so big and hot that no one can remember anything like it. One of the scientists who coined that term is Craig Allen. I drive with him to New Mexico's Bandelier National Monument, where he works for the U.S. Geological Survey. We take a dirt road up into the Jemez Mountains, into a landscape of black poles as far as you can see. Except they aren't poles. Every single tree is dead. For miles. "You can tell me the next time you...
URL: http://www.npr.org/2012/08/23/159373770/the-new-normal-for-wildfires-forest-killing-megablazes?ft=1&f=1025
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