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Bigger, hotter fires are slowly erasing America’s great forests
Bigger and hotter fires are slowly causing significant changes to America’s great forests. Recent studies estimate that up to 40% of Western conifer forests could turn into shrubland by the year 2100.
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Adjacent reporting
- U.S. wildfire season exceeds 10-year average as 99 large fires burn
- President Trump is taking aim at forest and wildfire research just as the West is poised to burn
- Large Fires Scorch Drought-Stricken Western U.S.
- Georgia wildfires come as much of America is ready to burn
- Global forest loss slows but El Niño fires could threaten progress