Wildfires disrupt connectedness, CSU study says

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Wildfires disrupt connectedness, CSU study says

As wildfires ravage places—whether forests or communities—they also deeply impact our sense of those places. This sense of connectedness after wildfire is the subject of research conducted after the Cameron Peak Fire that scorched a path through northern Colorado in 2020, becoming the largest wildfire in Colorado history. Anne Mook, a scientist at Colorado State University’s Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, and Pilar Morales-Giner,…