ClimateWire: With everyone from the Forest Service to the governor of California warning of increasingly severe wildfires, one might think residents of Western wildlands would be pulling up stakes and moving to safety.
The assumption would be wrong.
Climate change and development are on a collision course with housing development in fire-prone regions accelerating even as warmer, drier temperatures push the West's fire regimes into uncharted territory. Both trends have put increased pressure on federal...