A newly released shows more than three times as many houses and other structures burned in Western wildfires from 2010 to 2020 than in the previous decade.
A newly released shows more than three times as many houses and other structures burned in Western wildfires from 2010 to 2020 than in the previous decade.
For a researcher who studies wildfire, University of Montana graduate student Kyra Clark-Wolf couldn’t have had better timing. Clark-Wolf arrived in Missoula to start her graduate studies on the impacts of wildfires on forests at the W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation on July 4, 2017. Eleven days later, a lightning strike sparked the Lolo Peak Fire just south of the city, burning nearly 54,000 acres and leaving lasting and indelible images among Missoulians of dense smoke and flames visible from town.