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00:00People think you need dramatic swings in weather to change fire behavior and you really don't.

00:12If it's three or four or five degrees warmer than normal at night, that's a big difference

00:17for fire behavior.

00:18Relative humidity, normally RH as we call it, RH goes up into the double digits at night.

00:25And what we're seeing more and more is RHs that are staying in the single digits all

00:30night long.

00:31And that just creates for really volatile fire.

00:34In the American West, average temperatures have risen 1.2 degrees Celsius over the last

00:40two decades.

00:42The warmer temperatures lead to more evaporation, not only from waterways, but also from soil.

00:48Over the same period, the West has experienced what scientists are now calling one of the

00:53worst droughts in 1,200 years.

00:58The climate's changing.

01:00It's resulting in weather changes, which results in significant fire behavior changes.

01:05And over and over, we are seeing high heat intensity, high extreme fires.

01:11So that brings us to this question of what do we do about it?

01:19Here we are battling planetary forces and a century of fire suppression that has left

01:25our ecologies weak.

01:27And so how do we regain both the strength of the ecologies and allow communities to

01:32be able to survive when these fires strike?

01:37First of all, there's a climate signal that's causing a lot of our forests to burn today.

01:43And so we're seeing much more extensive forest fires.

01:48We're also seeing that as a result of hotter, drier conditions, a lot of our forests are

01:54actually not regenerating after the fire.

01:56The fires are burning so hot, and then the conditions afterwards is not conducive for

02:03little seeds to be able to germinate and resprout.

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