Spatiotemporal Synchrony of Climate and Fire Occurrence Across North American Forests (1750–1880) Aim Increasing aridity has driven widespread synchronous fire occurrence in recent decades across North America. The lack of historical (pre-1880) fire records limits our ability to understand long-...

Original research here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Special thanks to Chris Guiterman, Tom Swetnam (@firescar.bsky.social), Ellis Margolis, and Sean Parks (@grumpyunclesean.bsky.social) for insightful commentary and background.

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