Boise National Forest, Idaho, 1995
Photograph by Raymond Gehman
“‘That place was moonscaped,’ firefighters say of land like a part of Boise National Forest that burned in 1994. After years of overprotection from fire, trees burn hotter, faster, and more completely. ‘We don’t know when it will recover,’ says a forester, ‘or what it will be when it does. Maybe a brush field.’”
—From “The Essential Element of Fire,” September 1996, National Geographic magazine
Boise国家森林,爱达荷州,1995
Raymond Gehman拍摄
“这地方就像月球表面。”消防员这样描述Boise国家森林在1994年发生火灾的一个部分。在许多年的过度消防保护之后,树木燃烧地更热更快并且更加彻底。“我们不知道它什么时候才能恢复过来,”一名林间管理员这样说,“或者它到时候将变成什么样子。也许会变成一片灌木丛。”
——引自《国家地理杂志》1996年9月“火的根本要素”一文