As the climate warms, there will be more, larger, hotter forest fires…& they won’t distinguish between public & private lands… ASW —————————- Original Message —————————- Subject: Cost of building homes in harm’s way From: “Lance Olsen” <lance@wildrockies.org> Date: Wed, May 14, 2008 10:26 am To: “cmcr-outreach” <cmcr-outreach@vortex.wildrockies.org> ————————————————————————– ————————- “Big… Continue reading

Note the US Forest Service official’s quote at the end: smells like something’s afoot… ASW ——————————————— “The findings run contrary to expectation. It was thought that more trees meant more carbon being drawn from the atmosphere. ‘If you suppress fires and lots of little trees show up, then you ought… Continue reading

————————————————– The new study is written by many of the people who wrote the so-called Working Group I report, the first of a trio of major assessments released last year by the IPCC. It concludes “significant changes” are already occurring among natural systems on all continents, with the exception of… Continue reading

Good article-but this person also forgets that-even just in terms of climate stability-forests are more than carbon sinks. They serve as sponges, slowing the hydrological cycle & cooling the planet. Biodiversity itself also contributes to climate stability… We need to connect ALL these dots-especially where ecosystems are concerned…some of us… Continue reading