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Here’s part of an e-mail alert from CBS’ “60 Minutes” on one part of tomorrow night’s program. It’s about the environment. You remember the environment, don’t you?
By the end of this century, more than half the forests in the American West could be gone. That’s a sobering thought that is unfortunately what a leading fire ecologist predicts could happen in our lead segment about mega-fires. When correspondent Scott Pelley first reported on mega-fires from the fire line in Idaho a few months ago, he met the man in charge of battling these blazes for the U.S. government. Tom Boatner says fighting once-rare 200,000-acre blazes is now “just another day at the office.” Increasingly, says Boatner, he’s seeing fires that burn a half million acres or more. They’re fueled by an abundance of underbrush, caused by the forest service’s own policy of putting out all fires over the last century. “As fires continue to burn — these mega-fires continue to burn — we may see, ultimately, maybe more than half the forest land converting to other types of ecosystems,” says Tom Swetnam, a fire ecologist at the University of Arizona.
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Filed under: conservation, global warming pollution, wildlife conservation
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