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Let It Burn? Yosemite Park Officials Won't Say That, But It's Policy
2013-08-30 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: As the massive Rim fire roared out of the Stanislaus National Forest and deeper into Yosemite National Park this week, public attention rose sharply. But the intensity of firefighting did not. That's because part of the blaze had crossed into the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, which has a more restrained approach to managing wildfires than other federal, state and local fire agencies battling the 300-square-mile blaze. Officials estimate that it will be fully contained in two or three...
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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The Yosemite Inferno in the Context of Forest Policy, Ecology and Climate Change
2013-08-29 18:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Assessing the drivers of wildfire trends in the American West these days can be akin to Hercule Poirots task on the Orient Express, on which there was one murder with 12 final suspects all of whom were guilty. For western [wild]fire (its hard to see how the wild part of that word applies any more, given how many human factors are involved), the suspects are a century of accumulated fire debt from fire suppression efforts, development and road construction, natural fluctuations in drought and...
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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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Yosemite Rim Fire is taste of things to come
2013-08-27 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: San Francisco is in a declared state of emergency, its power and water supplies threatened by one of the largest fires on record in California. The blaze is 250 kilometres to the east of the city, on the fringes of Yosemite National Park. It is a grim warning of profound changes that may lie ahead, as the western US comes to terms with a new ecology of fire, wrought by climate change. The Rim Fire is already the seventh largest in California since records began in the 1930s, having so far torched...
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