Federal officials: Climate change hits home

Durango Herald: Hotter temperatures, shorter winters, more beetles, larger wildfires and dwindling fiscal resources: This is the sobering future in store for U.S. forests, according to two government officials. In a meeting Thursday with the editorial board of The Durango Herald, Harris Sherman, undersecretary of natural resources and environment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Mark Stiles, San Juan National Forest supervisor, laid out the climate and budgetary challenges woodlands in Colorado – and...

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