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Originally Posted by brassmonkey
wtf?? are you american?? forest in Phoenix,Az? you high???  up north maybe flagstaff sedona |
check this shit out!
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In 2002, the Rodeo-Chediski fire consumed 469,000 acres of pine and mixed conifer on the Mogollon Rim, not far from Phoenix. It was an ecological holocaust that no one expected to see surpassed. Only nine years later, in 2011, the Wallow fire picked up the torch, so to speak, and burned across the Rim all the way to the New Mexico border and beyond, topping out at 538,000 charred acres.
Now, nobody thinks such fires are one-off flukes. Diligent modeling of forest response to rising temperatures and increased moisture stress suggests, in fact, that these two fires were harbingers of worse to come. By mid-century, according to a paper by an A-team of Southwestern forest ecologists, the ?normal? stress on trees will equal that of the worst megadroughts in the region?s distant paleo-history, when most of the trees in the area simply died.