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Posted on April 19, 2021 | Views: 160 cwebb2021-04-19T01:21:18-07:00 by Alan Buis: The year 2020 will be remembered for many things, not the least of which were a series of devastating fires around the globe that bear the fingerprints of climate change… From Australia and South America’s Amazon and Pantanal regions, to Siberia and the U.S. West, wildfires set new records and made news year-round. It was an especially bad year for wildfires on the U.S. West Coast. Five of California’s 10 largest wildfires on record happened in 2020, and the state set a new record for acres burned. According to CAL FIRE, the state’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, more than 9,600 wildfires burned nearly 4.2 million acres through mid-December, causing more than 30 fatalities and damaging or destroying nearly 10,500 structures. ....
The Climate Connections of a Record Fire Year in the U.S. West By Alan Buis, NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Smoke from wildfires shrouded the San Francisco Bay Area and blocked sunlight on September 9, 2020. Credit: Aaron Maizlish/Flickr/CC BY 2.0 The year 2020 will be remembered for many things, not the least of which were a series of devastating fires around the globe that bear the fingerprints of climate change. From Australia and South America’s Amazon and Pantanal regions, to Siberia and the U.S. West, wildfires set new records and made news year-round. It was an especially bad year for wildfires on the U.S. West Coast. Five of California’s 10 largest wildfires on record happened in 2020, and the state set a new record for acres burned. According to CAL FIRE, the state’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, more than 9,600 wildfires burned nearly 4.2 million acres through mid-December, causing more than 30 fatalities and damaging or destroyi ....
By Mark Rackay If there ever was an animal associated with the Great Plains, it has to be the prairie dog. They look like chubby little fur balls, but actually, are fast, skilled fighters armed with long and sharp claws and very powerful teeth. Surprisingly, there are five different species of prairie dogs. These include the black-tailed, white-tailed, Gunnisonâs, Mexican and the Utah, with the most common being the black-tail, which inhabits the Great Plains. Colorado is home to three species. The black-tail lives generally below 6,000 feet in altitude along all the Eastern Plains of the state. The white-tail lives in the shrub lands of North Park, the Wyoming Basin, and the lower Colorado and Gunnison valleys, while the Gunnisonâs range is the San Luis Valley, South Park and a few areas to the south and west. ....
Wyoming precipitation down 30% from average; spring runoffs expected to be low By Brendan LaChance on January 11, 2021 Ice forms on the North Platte River on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City) CASPER, Wyo. With precipitation below average in Wyoming, spring runoffs are expected to be lower than usual this spring. “Spring runoff volumes are expected to be around 80% of normal for Wyoming,” Natural Resources Conservation Service Wyoming Hydrologist Jim Fahey said on Monday. The NRCS released their Wyoming Basin & Water Supply Outlook Report on Monday which states that precipitation across basins in the state was near 70% of average as of Jan. 1. ....