Check out this CalMatters publication, featuring CBI’s Dr. Alexandra Syphard, about the critically dry conditions in L.A. and what role those conditions played in the recent L.A. fires.
Alexandra Syphard, a senior research ecologist at the Conservation Biology Institute and an adjunct professor at San Diego State University, said the extreme conditions have rendered humans powerless, at least in the near term, to subdue wildfire threats. ‘I do not believe there is anything that wildland management could have done to qualitatively or substantially alter the outcome of these fires,’ she said.
