{"id":668525,"date":"2020-09-30T11:04:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T15:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=668525"},"modified":"2020-09-30T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T15:04:30","slug":"qa-landscape-ecologist-says-california-wildfires-arent-a-random-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=668525","title":{"rendered":"Q&A: Landscape ecologist says California wildfires aren't a random situation"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past several weeks, dozens of wildfires have scorched a destructive path across western forests and plains, threatening homes and habitat\u2014as of this week, more than 5 million acres in California, Oregon and Washington have been destroyed by some of the largest wildfires in the region’s history. Monica Turner, a landscape ecologist in the Department of Integrative Biology, spent several decades studying the ecosystems of Yellowstone National Park after wildfires ravaged the park in 1988. For more than a decade, Turner, who just received the 2020 Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America, has warned that situations like the one that damaged Yellowstone could become more common. She took a few moments to put the current catastrophic wildfires into context for us.
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