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Rain Dampens Colorados Worst-Ever Wildfire
2013-06-15 01:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: A welcome rain this afternoon is helping to extinguish the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history. The Black Forest Fire within the Colorado Springs city limits killed two people Tuesday while they were trying to flee, and before the rain began it was still raging out of control. El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa told reporters the bodies of two people were found about 2 pm Thursday in their garage with the car doors open. They are believed to have died Tuesday afternoon as their Black...
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INRIX Traffic Maps Show Colorado Wildfire Backups Stretch 10 Miles
2013-06-14 17:35:34| Location-Based Services (LBS) Zone
INRIX Traffic Maps Show Colorado Wildfire Backups Stretch 10 Miles, Congestion Becomes a Big Problem - Drivers on I-25 should prepare to wait in bumper-to-bumper traffic
Climate change causing US wildfire season to last longer, Congress told
2013-06-04 22:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: America's wildfire season lasts two months longer than it did 40 years ago and burns up twice as much land as it did in those earlier days because of the hotter, drier conditions produced by climate change, the country's forest service chief told Congress on Tuesday. But the forest service was forced to make sharp cuts to fire prevention programmes, and reduce the numbers of fire-fighters and engines because of budget pressures, Thomas Tidwell, the chief of the United States Forest Service, told...
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Drought, climate change and forest practices elevate Utah wildfire risk
2013-06-04 21:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salt Lake Tribune: So is the hazard created by modern forest management, said Michael Jenkins, associate professor in USUs Quinney College of Natural Resources. Aggressive management has been "essentially eliminated," and dry forest undergrowth has built up, turning parts of Utah into tinderboxes, he said. "Forests today are in a much different state than they were 200 years ago when fires were more common," Jenkins said. "We have suppressed fires for 100 years, which has allowed fuels to build up, trees to get...
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Wildfire Season Is Shaping Up To Be A Doozy
2013-05-30 17:40:00| Beef
No fishing tale is complete without a story of the one that got away. The stories that result from the upcoming wildfire season will be the same its the ones that get away that everyone will talk about. Given the dry conditions that exist again this year throughout much of the West, it appears the media henhouse will have plenty of fodder to scratch around in. read more
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