Grief and Gratitude in a New Mexico Fire

As wildfire and floods bring devastation to Calf Canyon and Hermit’s Peak, community steps forward to rebuild lives

Shortly before midnight on May 3, we directly and personally entered the growing multitudes of climate evacuees. Such an event was not unexpected. Our forests had become drier than kiln-finished lumber. If you struck 100 matches and dropped them to the ground, 90 to 94 of them would ignite a fire. Precipitation had become a long-lost friend. The link of a warming climate to such a cataclysmic event was evident throughout the region long before the fire drew its first breath.

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