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  • Our New Age of Fire

    STEVE PYNE, Writers on the Range|Sep 8, 2021

    Fire in the West is expected, and not so long ago, it seemed something the West experienced more than anywhere else. Nationally, big fires were treated as another freak of Western violence, like a grizzly bear attack, or another California quirk like Esalen and avocados. Now the wildland fires flare up everywhere. There are fires in Algeria and Turkey, Amazonia and Indonesia, and France, Canada and Australia. Last year even Greenland burned. Fire seasons have lengthened, fires have gotten meaner and bigger; fires have begun not just gorging on...