The west has been on fire this summer, changing lives and landscapes.
Fire has been remaking the terrestrial world for at least 400 million years. In
the Harvest 2012 issue of Colorado
Gardener magazine I elaborate on this theme in “Surviving and sometimes
thriving with fire.” Climate change will make our collective response to fire a
moving target, as habitats regroup under changing temperature regimes. I’ll be
interested in any feedback you have to the topic.
Here’s the link: http://digital.publicationprinters.com/publication/?i=124374
My illustration features Corydalis
aurea, or “golden smoke,” a flowering plant that pioneered burned mountain
territory after the Hayman Fire in 2002.
