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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Forests Under Siege, Farmer's Markets Emerge from COVID-19 & the Housing Spectrum | 6.14.21
Description: This month marks the ten-year anniversary of the 2011 Las Conchas Fire, which burned 156,000 acres of the Jemez Mountains. At the time, Las Conchas was the largest fire in New Mexico’s recorded history.
Here in New Mexico—and across the West—wildfire season is getting longer. Wildfires, bigger. And these trends will continue in our warming world. Between 1970 and 2020, New Mexico’s average annual temperature has risen by 3.4 degrees Fahrenheit—and forecasts show we’re in for more and more warming into the future.
But wildfires aren’t the only problem spurred by rising temperatures and drought, w...