What Jon said.
We most certainly are in a drought in the West, and it has significantly affected the Mearns populations in SE AZ. This Monsoon possibly too much rain for the summer hatch chicks. And major flooding off the burn scars in Flag and Globe.
We most certainly have more people, who are building homes in the forest...and in Rancho Ridiculosos in the desert.

I had a friend who was a career Conservation Officer, mostly in Nevada, and he observed "where there is smoke, there is money."

OTOH last week we were up in the White Mountains and visited Greer. This is the burn scar from the 2011 Wallow Fire that burned > 500,000 acres and made it VERY close to town

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