The York fire in the Mojave Desert is small by California standards but may damage sensitive lands for hundreds of years.
in the Mojave Desert is small by California standards but may damage sensitive lands for hundreds of years.
The 400 or so firefighters battling the blaze have had to balance their efforts with concerns about disrupting the fragile ecosystem in California’s Mojave National Preserve. The blaze ignited near the remote Caruthers Canyon area of the vast wildland preserve, crossed the state line into Nevada on Sunday and sent smoke farther east into the Las Vegas Valley.
In Nevada, the fire has entered the state’s newest national monument, Avi Kwa Ame, said Lee Beyer, a spokesperson for the U.S. Forest Service. But Beyer said the number of acres burned within the boundaries of the vast monument in southern Nevada wasn’t yet known.ripped through the Mojave National Preserve, ravaging one of the world’s largest Joshua tree forests. The Dome fire was less than half the size of the York fire and killed an estimated 1.3 million Joshua trees.
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