Been a busy week (what with New Mexico burning down) with little to show for it other than an overactive Twitter feed, but I caught my breath this morning and threw together some thoughts on weather, climate, forest management, drought, and the unnerving fact that I had to cut my morning bike ride short because of the smoke. The state I live in and love is on fire:

As Los Alamos National Laboratory forest ecologist Nate McDowell told me yesterday with some understatement (from his evacuated safe haven of Santa Fe): “It’s a warm drought.”