Climate change could bring more fires

Temps, wet weather may set the stage for bigger blazes in region

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
March 5, 2007

It's a story seen in before and after snapshots of the High Desert landscape.

Before homesteaders began suppressing wildfires, ponderosa pine forests were mostly open stands with big trees and junipers only dotted the sagebrush-covered hills.

After people started aggressively fighting fires, the....

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