Obama attributes wildfires to climate change

Associated Press ^ | Jul 22, 2014 9:05 PM EDT

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President Barack Obama says a wildfire that has burned nearly 400 square miles in the north-central part of Washington state, along with blazes in other Western areas, can be attributed to climate change.

Obama, speaking at a fundraiser Tuesday, offered federal help to deal with Washington’s wildfire, the largest in the state’s history. …

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What ever happened to the National Forest Service div of BLM?

The Forest Service is an agency under the Department of Agriculture. The BLM is an agency under the Department of the Interior.

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From your link:

Year-to-date statistics
2014 (1/1/14 - 7/2214) Fires: 30,839 Acres: 1,562,243
2013 (1/1/13 - 7/22/13) Fires: 26,405 Acres: 2,171,893
2012 (1/1/12 - 7/22/12) Fires: 34,759 Acres: 3,791,054
2011 (1/1/11 - 7/22/11) Fires: 42,189 Acres: 5,875,756
2010 (1/1/10 - 7/22/10) Fires: 34,982 Acres: 1,914,930
2009 (1/1/09 - 7/22/09) Fires: 53,501 Acres: 2,870,165
2008 (1/1/08 - 7/22/08) Fires: 52,572 Acres: 3,360,649
2007 (1/1/07 - 7/22/07) Fires: 54,827 Acres: 4,209,806
2006 (1/1/06 - 7/22/06) Fires: 67,394 Acres: 4,838,319
2005 (1/1/05 - 7/22/05) Fires: 35,885 Acres: 3,926,435
2004 (1/1/05 - 7/22/05) Fires: 44,118 Acres: 4,770,213
Annual average prior 10 years
2004-2013 Fires: 44,663 Acres: 3,772,922

Note: these are year-to-date numbers for each year, not totals for the prior years. 2011 was the worst season of the decade, and that was primarily from the Wallow Fire in Arizona.

We got the smoke from that one for several weeks here in the Albuquerque metro.

2013 was an interesting season. It virtually dropped off at the end of August, when fires usually burn well into September and even October.

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Yep.