Global warming and ongoing drought conditions in the western U.S. are drying out such forests, making them particularly susceptible to blazes.Jim Urquhart / Reuters fileWildfires in the western United States are increasingly happening at high elevations, in mountainous areas that were previously too wet to burn, according to a new study.
Typically, at such high elevations, snow lingers through the summer, leaving little time for vegetation in these mountainous forests to dry out before rain and snow fall anew in the autumn and winter.in the year and disrupting that natural cycle. The new research focused on a 34-year period ending in 2017, the most recent year with reliable data available from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program, which is overseen by the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Forest Service and several other government agencies.If more recent years were taken into account, Sadegh said the trend toward higher-elevation fires would likely be even more pronounced.
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