Sierra Nevada climate changes feed monster, forest-devouring fires
By | Published: November 30, 2008
Sacramento Bee: Driving home from Lake Tahoe, Leah Wills watched the column of ash-gray smoke from the Moonlight fire grow and grow – until finally she was under it. Overhead, the sky that September afternoon in 2007 turned eerie pink. Orange-red flecks of burning bark streaked like missiles through the air. And the smoke – eye-watering and acrid – was inescapable. "It was like a nuclear cloud," said Wills, 59, a policy analyst for the Plumas County Flood Control District who lives near the …
Sierra Nevada climate changes feed monster, forest-devouring fires
Sacramento Bee: Driving home from Lake Tahoe, Leah Wills watched the column of ash-gray smoke from the Moonlight fire grow and grow – until finally she was under it. Overhead, the sky that September afternoon in 2007 turned eerie pink. Orange-red flecks of burning bark streaked like missiles through the air. And the smoke – eye-watering and acrid – was inescapable. "It was like a nuclear cloud," said Wills, 59, a policy analyst for the Plumas County Flood Control District who lives near the …
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