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Failure thin brush may have worsened California wildfire
2013-09-01 14:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A cluster of controlled fire and tree-thinning projects approved by forestry officials but never funded might have slowed the progress of the massive Rim Fire in California, a wide range of critics said this weekend. The massive blaze at the edge of Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada mountains has scorched an area larger than many U.S. cities - with some of that land in the very location pinpointed by the U.S. Forest service for eight projects aimed at clearing and burning brush and small...
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Wildfire in Yosemite expands and obscures scenic views
2013-09-01 06:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A massive wildfire that has charred the northwest edge of Yosemite National Park in California has sent smoke into a scenic and previously unaffected area, obscuring views of popular landmarks on Saturday for tourists who visited the area. The smoke from the fire, which broke out two weeks ago, spread to the area during a holiday weekend that in the past years has seen the park fill with visitors. Shifting winds brought heavy smoke from the so-called Rim Fire to Yosemite Valley, an area famed...
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Yosemite wildfire still raging, keeps tourists away
2013-08-30 03:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Fire crews battling to outflank a monster wildfire inside Yosemite National Park made headway on Friday in confining flames to wilderness areas but were powerless to salvage the region's sputtering tourist economy at the end of its peak summer tourist season. By morning, the tally of charred landscape from the so-called Rim Fire surpassed 200,000 acres, or nearly 315 square miles, three-quarters of that in the Stanislaus National Forest west of the park, fire officials said. But a second straight...
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Future Wildfire Seasons to Be Longer, Smokier, and Cover More Area
2013-08-29 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Fire seasons will be three weeks longer, generate twice as much smoke, and cover a larger area of the western U.S. by 2050, a new study from Harvard researchers finds. The risk of large fires could also increase by a factor of two to three. In general, the biggest driver for future fires in Western states will be temperature, but driving factors can vary from region to region, the researchers say. In the Rockies, for example, moisture in the forest floor is the biggest predictor. Wildfires in the...
California wildfire heads deeper into Yosemite, entry road closed
2013-08-29 06:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Firefighters determined to keep a massive blaze from raging into the heart of California's Yosemite National Park have shut down half of its main east-west corridor, just days before a holiday weekend marking the end of the peak summer tourist season. A long stretch of Tioga Road through the western half of the park was closed on Wednesday as fire crews tightened their grip on the blaze, extending containment lines around 30 percent of the wildfire's perimeter by the end of its 12th day. The...
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