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Bill Bruton is noticing some surprising changes in his mountain town nine months after the state’s second largest wildfire ripped through it, destroying more than 300 homes.
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Wildfire potential is increased through Thursday across portions of the state, including the Western Plains and Trans…
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The drought gripping much of the state has some thinking back to 2011, the worst single-year drought in Texas history.
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Homeowners are rebuilding after wildfires, but many won't be required by governments to use fire-resistant materials. Without such improvements, communities face harm again with the next fire.
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The culprit is air pollution — a problem around the globe, from homes where people cook using coal and wood to the smoky streets of San Francisco when wildfires were raging.
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Experts warn that Western states and the federal government need to radically increase the number and size of controlled burns to help reduce the ongoing risks of more catastrophic wildfire seasons.
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The fires are burning across more than 400,000 acres and have reached Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Many homeowners who lost everything in a wildfire had no idea they were at risk. Only two states require disclosing wildfire risk to buyers in the house hunting process.
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For many communities in the West, the water that flows out of kitchen faucets and bathroom showerheads starts high up in the mountains, as snowpack tucked under canopies of spruce and pine trees. This summer’s record-breaking wildfires have reduced some of those headwater forests to burnt trees and heaps of ash.
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Yellowstone's 1988 wildfires marked a paradigm shift, ushering in a new chapter of massive, frequent fires that communities across the American West face today. They also deepened our understanding of wildfires from a destructive force to a vital ecological process.