Wildfires getting worse, fueled by dry winters, higher winds
If you’re like me, you were sickened to read about the wildfires running amok across sections of Nebraska in mid March. Thousands and thousands of acres, as far as the eye could see in areas of the Sandhills, in bluffs and hills southeast of North Platte and south of Kilgore, and (once again) in areas near the Nebraska National Forest in Halsey.
As I write this, more than 800,000 acres have burned, according to the Nebraska Public Media.That’s pasture that could feed hundreds of thousands of cattle.Who knows how many miles of fencing was destroyed.
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