"Fire is a perfectly normal thing in Colorado," said Brain Buma, Associate Professor of Integrative Biology. "It's been here for tens of thousands of years, and it will be... our forests are quite adapted to those fires.” But Mother Nature's job is getting harder. "The fires that we're getting now are resulting in conditions that the forest just can't handle," Buma said.

Study: Colorado forests are not recovering post-fire like they used to
9News, April 3