Under a federal judge’s order on Friday, the U.S. Forest Service may continue fighting wildfires with aerial retardants while obtaining the required permit under the Clean Water Act.
Taking into account anticipated mortality rates, Zack Bashoor estimates that the regeneration process will yield approximately one and a quarter million trees over a span of three years.
When a wind-driven wildfire burned on Mount Helena last August, aerial firefighting operations were delayed for about 10 minutes because of an unauthorized drone.
La Niña changes the winters across North America. Canada and northern America get colder, the southwest U.S. gets hotter and drier, and the Pacific Northwest gets wetter.