Posts Tagged ‘Las Conchas fire’
On the Environment: Matthew Hurteau
December 31, 2021 – Matthew Hurteau is a professor in the Department of Biology at the University of New Mexico. He’s an ecologist who studies climate change mitigation and adaptation in forest system. In this essay, he talks about his professional–and personal–relationship with landscapes that have burned in recent wildfires. He explains ways to mitigate…
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June 11, 2021 – This month marks the ten-year anniversary of the 2011 Las Conchas Fire, which burned 156,000 acres of the Jemez Mountains. At the time, Las Conchas was the largest fire in New Mexico’s recorded history. Here in New Mexico—and across the West—wildfire season is getting longer. Wildfires, bigger. And these trends will continue in our warming world. Between 1970 and 2020, New Mexico’s average…
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