Study links fires to ocean temperatures

AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/26/06 | Jeff Barnard - ap

[Wuli]

"Another factor in the larger fires, said Swetnam, is that after a century of fighting wildfires, fuel is building up in the nation's forests."

Yes, in times long ago when nature started forest fires and there was no U.S. national forestry service they burned themselves out, in time. And then when the next dry/warming cycle came there were some areas with less dense growth and thus more smaller fires, and fewer big fires, in those areas - sometimes.

Now, we intervene at almost every fire, the forests that remain get more dense and when the major drying cycle hits, we have saved more fuel for it to burn.

[Beagle8U]

"Ya....because when I think "Trees", I think "Arizona"."

Who could know more about trees than those that live in a desert?...lol

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

"Laboratory of Tree Ring Research"

Has a nice tree to it.

[Westlander]

Here is a CAT scan of their brain.

[calex59]

Of course more fires have nothing to do with the fact we don't keep the forest as clean as we used to thanks to the greenies.