I’ve lived most of my life in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The world’s tallest Aspen groves are in the Sangre De Cristo Mountains of New Mexico, where I worked as a wilderness ranger. Those groves formed from massive forest fires in the 19th century.
There was a huge forest fire in Los Alamos 11 years ago – which is now filling in with much more attractive Aspen trees. Fires go through cycles, and most of the west has been amazingly free of fires this year.
The monsoons will start in New Mexico in about a week, and that will shut the fire season down there. In a couple of weeks they will start in Arizona too.
Most of the west is dealing with flooding, not fire.
h/t to Marc Morano
More totally misleading alarmist hysteria.
There are dry areas no doubt. But there have been far more extensive droughts many times in the past, like 1934 when 80% of the US was experiencing a significant drought.
The world is burning.
Thank you for writing this! You are right; so many people don’t understand that it’s a natural cycle. And, as you know, it’s absolutely a part of living in the SW. The rains will come and the fires will calm down. As they always do.