Within the temperate climes of wooded land,
Disturbances are part of nature’s flow;
But as the rising heat gets out of hand,
The fingerprints of change begin to grow.
The patchiness of localised affairs,
Cannot conceal the wider cracks and tears;
The global climate means it won’t be long,
Until the forests that we knew are gone.
The Rim Fire in the Stanislaus National Forest near California, which occurred in August 2013.
This is a Heroic Rispetto, inspired by recent research which has found that climate change is causing more severe wildfires, as well as a higher frequency in other disturbances such as insect outbreaks in temperate forests.
Temperate forests
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