Forests are having a hard time recovering as the West sees more fast-moving wildfires, according to a new study

Forests are having a hard time recovering as the West sees more fast-moving wildfires, according to a new study

Extreme wildfires that burn quickly and intensely are making it harder for forests in the West to recover, according to a new study from researchers at Western Colorado University. The study published last month in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances compared 3,500 wildfires that together burned more than 100 million acres in conifer forests across western North America between 2012 and 2023. “What we found was the faster a fire grows acr…