Denialists: “What does this have to do with climate change? There are forest fires all the time.”
Anyone who has been paying attention: “…”
Climate change mixed with awful mismanagement of forests. Overzealous fire suppression and thoughtless tree planting has lead to forests that are artificially over-dense so when they dry out they practically explode when ignited.
While the current Bear Gultch fire is on the other side of the Olympics…
It would be a tragedy to lose the Hoh Rainforest, and the article mentions that it did burn some decades ago.
The Hoh Rainforest is one of … only maybe three temperate rainforests on the planet, the vast majority of rainforests are tropical.
If you’ve seen the movie Prospect… you’ve seen it, much of it was filmed there.
Yeah, that’s 3 trees growing out of a larger fallen tree, which itself is still alive, all covered in moss… where the moss isn’t, and the trees appear black, that isn’t a burn mark, its a layer of a kind of slimy mold or fungus… and of course, ferns, ferns everywhere.
I guess you would maybe describe it as the closest you can get in the real world to the twilight biome/dimension from minecraft…
I was confused because what your describing sounds like large parts of New Zealand and Tasmania, so I checked Wikipedia which says:
Temperate rainforests occur in oceanic moist regions around the world: the Pacific temperate rainforests of North American Pacific Northwest as well as the Appalachian temperate rainforest in the Appalachian region of the United States; the Valdivian temperate rainforests of southwestern South America; the rainforests of New Zealand and southeastern Australia; northwest Europe (small pockets in Great Britain and larger areas in Ireland, southern Norway, northern Iberia and Brittany); southern Japan; the Black Sea–Caspian Sea region from the southeasternmost coastal zone of the Bulgarian coast, through Turkey, to Georgia, and northern Iran.
Well shoot, my info/number there is wrong then, you are correct.
If you can’t tell, I grew up in the area, and I was just regurgitating that figure I was taught almost 30 years ago… appears I’ve got a bit of hometown bias, out of date info, whoops.
I appreciate the correction!
Also nightmare fuel: Will America’s Worst Wildfire Disaster Happen in New Jersey? [article is 6 pages long, sorry for the need to click-through).
If you look into the CSZ “big one” you might find that we’re likely to face uncontrolled fires throughout the PNW shortly following the earthquake. Expecting “complete economic collapse” for everything west of I5. Think the official estimate was a 37 percent chance within 50 years, about 30 years ago…
