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Rim fire's effects likely to last for decades to come
2013-09-23 18:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Tourists stopped at the Rim of the World overlook on California 120 earlier this month to take photos of the panoramic view just as they always have. But they stared in silence at the ashen hues of a landscape swept by the largest wildfire to burn in the Sierra Nevada in more than a century of recordkeeping. Steep canyon walls and mountain slopes that had been robed in chaparral and oak were now draped in black, spreading to the horizon in a funereal scene. To the north, miles and miles of...
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