The Burning Season

2011 was such a dry and terrible year here in New Mexico that 2012 was bound to be better -- a regression toward the mean. But it wasn’t, and now 2013 is looking even worse. I am used to a northern New Mexico where I am still shoveling snow a few times in March and sometimes April. And that is after all the winter snows, which by now would be running as cold, icy water down the Santa Fe River and the Rio en Medio and the Capulin and the Nambe -- all up and down the Sangre de Cristos -- and recharging the water table. But the snowpack this winter was also a bust. And, for the first time in memory, we had no real rainy season last summer. In March Tom Yulsman published this stunning satellite photo in a post on ImaGeo titled Land of Enchantment, Drought and ...