1 Billion Acres At Risk For Catastrophic Wildfires, U.S. Forest Service Warns

1 Billion Acres At Risk For Catastrophic Wildfires, U.S. Forest Service Warns

Posted by on Jun 6, 2019 @ 7:44 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: June 5, 2019

The chief of the U.S. Forest Service is warning that a billion acres of land across America are at risk of catastrophic wildfires like last fall’s deadly Camp Fire that destroyed most of Paradise, Calif. As we head into summer, with smoke already drifting into the Northwest from wildfires in Alberta, Canada, Vicki Christiansen said wildfires are now a year-round...

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