Dr. Patrick Gonzalez, climate change scientist, forest ecologist, and Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity, discusses science and solutions for wildfire and climate change, in the September 15, 2023 issue of Parks Stewardship Forum https://doi.org/10.5070/P539362026.
Wildfire is natural in many temperate forests but unnatural in tropical rainforests and certain other ecosystems. Human-caused climate change is intensifying the heat that drives wildfire. Preventive burning in temperate forests, halting deforestation in tropical forests, and cutting carbon pollution reduce wildfire risks and increase forest resilience under climate change.
Browse photo (orange) by Kari Greer, USDA Forest Service
Yosemite photo (blue) by Patrick Gonzalez
