The Chicago Tribune has a cool interactive map of the California Wildfires up here. Clicking on the stars in the map takes you to newspaper articles relevant to those locations. Media coverage of the fire has an impact on public perception of fire in the landscape. It sounds like now they are going to try to blame it all on some "arsonist." I know it is stupid to start a fire in a forest during an extreme drought, and if anyone did so and can be caught he or she should be punished. But the reason for the fire really has a lot to do with the physical conditions of the land cover.
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