As wildfires flare up across West, research highlights risk of ecological change
Wednesday, July 1, 2020 - 03:00
in Earth & Climate
One of Jonathan Coop's first vivid memories as a child was watching the flames of the 1977 La Mesa Fire in north-central New Mexico. The human-caused fire burned more than 15,000 acres of pine forests in the Bandelier National Monument and areas surrounding the Los Alamos National Laboratory.