A Recipe for Catastrophic Wildfires” (news article, Aug. 22) knits together current events with authoritative science to help remove any question whether climate change is fueling our wildfire crisis. We must accept this reality and move forward with urgency. For too long, voices on the far left and the far right have impeded progress on actively “pre-storing” our forests for climate change by denying the clear reality that our forests are entering a new normal, and so our actions can no longer be normal either. It is time for consensus to move forward on needed management to make existing forests more climate resilient, and quickly replant forests that have been lost with the right tree species, genetics and planting techniques to survive and thrive in the future. The writer is president and chief executive of American Forests, a forest conservation nonprofit.

Source: New York Times September 07, 2020 15:56 UTC