Traumatized Trees: Bug Them Enough, They Get Fired Up

Whether forests are dying back, or just drying out, projections for warming show the Pacific Northwest primed for more wildfires. Fuels built up after a century of suppressing fires have long been pointed to as the reason, but since the early '90s climate appears to have become a contributing factor.

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