Are High-Severity Fires Burning at Much Higher Rates Recently than Historically in Dry-Forest Landscapes of the Western USA?

PLoS One · 2015 · PMC4564206 · PMID 26351850

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However, part of the explanation of trends in these particular regions and the nearly significant trend overall in dry pine forests may not be climate, but human-set fires.

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