Reading the Washington Landscape

  Malden Post Office before the fire Attribution of a single wildfire event to global warming is confounded by lots of other factors. The Ma...

I had a couple of central Washington projects and was relieved that the approaching cool front cleared the smoke away. The western air flow ...

I have a more than passing interest in the wildfire that burned into Santa Rosa. I lived there and taught school there for three years. The...

A scrub-steppe fire burned just south of Kennewick yesterday morning. The abrupt appearance of a plume of smoke in otherwise very clear sk...

I paid a revisit to a burned over slope in western Washington. This is a slope that has a southwest aspect, is well within the rain shadow...

Finally got around to fixing a couple of glitches on the blog so I changed the banner picture as well while I was at it. The picture...

Yet another fire area from the 2015 wildfire season. The Upper Skagit Complex took place in forest. It burned up the Skagit River gorge al...

I was not on a fire tour of central and eastern Washington; however, the recent burn areas cover a lot of ground. After my work adventures...