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Kat Dwyer: No, climate change isn’t the only reason for the wildfires

A century of bad forest management has left the West more vulnerable to fires.

(Christian Monterrosa|The New York Times) File cabinets left standing after they were burned at the Greenville Rancheria Fire office in Greenville, Calif., Aug. 8, 2021. Over the weekend the Dixie fire burned through enough of the Sierra Nevada to become the second largest fire in California’s history.