Sierra forests in 'critical' danger from fire
They say the danger couldn't have been demonstrated any more clearly than by that mushroom cloud of smoke churning over the Sierra one September afternoon.
The massive King Fire, still smoldering after blasting through more than 150 square miles of kiln-dry timber west of Lake Tahoe, is an example of things to come with increasing frequency unless big changes are made, according to a new report issued by a California state agency representing 22 Sierra counties.
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