Recent high-severity wildfires in a dry-conifer landscape are unprecedented over five centuries and foretell future forest loss
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 36, September 2026. SignificanceAcross a large dry-conifer forest landscape, the area burned by high-severity fire in the past 30 y is unprecedented in five centuries. Historically, frequent low-severity fires were a stabilizing force, but this fire regime collapsed by 1900 ...
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