As wildfires flare up across West, research highlights risk of ecological change

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Jul 1, 2020, 3:31 am592 ptsHot
One of Jonathan Coop's first vivid memories as a child was watching the flames of the 1977 La Mesa Fire in north-central New Mexico. The human-caused fire burned more than 15,000 acres of pine forests in the Bandelier National Monument and areas surrounding the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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