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Mt. Ritter, Banner Peak, & smoke over Garnet Lake, Ansel Adams Wilderness, Inyo National Forest, California, USA.

Mt. Ritter, Banner Peak, and smoke loom over Garnet Lake in Ansel Adams Wilderness, Inyo National Forest, California, USA. We backpacked for 5 days from Agnew Meadows to Thousand Island Lake, Garnet Lake, Ediza Lake, and Minaret Lake. Smoke drifting from the bad Caldor, Dixie, and other fires frequently smarted our eyes during 3 weeks of hiking in the Eastern Sierra in August of 2021. Then on September 1, most of California's National Forests were unprecedentedly closed for two weeks due to fire risk! Decades of fire exclusion policies, below-normal snow and rainfall, and increasingly hotter summers provides fuel and conditions ripe for forest fires sparked by both lightning and humans. Scientists warn that human-caused climate change has made the U.S. West warmer and drier in the past several decades and will continue to make the weather more extreme and wildfires more destructive. Multiple overlapping photos were stitched to make this panorama.

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2021 Aug 1-Sep 12: CA Sierras, CO, NE, SD, Global warming, climate change, California: Sierras: Inyo National Forest
Mt. Ritter, Banner Peak, and smoke loom over Garnet Lake in Ansel Adams Wilderness, Inyo National Forest, California, USA. We backpacked for 5 days from Agnew Meadows to Thousand Island Lake, Garnet Lake, Ediza Lake, and Minaret Lake. Smoke drifting from the bad Caldor, Dixie, and other fires frequently smarted our eyes during 3 weeks of hiking in the Eastern Sierra in August of 2021. Then on September 1, most of California's National Forests were unprecedentedly closed for two weeks due to fire risk! Decades of fire exclusion policies, below-normal snow and rainfall, and increasingly hotter summers provides fuel and conditions ripe for forest fires sparked by both lightning and humans. Scientists warn that human-caused climate change has made the U.S. West warmer and drier in the past several decades and will continue to make the weather more extreme and wildfires more destructive. Multiple overlapping photos were stitched to make this panorama.
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