One particular question they plan to address is whether the behaviour and severity of the High Park fire was affected by the spread of mountain pine beetle, a pest that is rapidly overrunning Colorado because its breeding season has been extended by the warming climate.

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Much closer to home, the company closed on a sizable purchase in the Pine Mountain-Cloverdale Peak appellation of California's Mendocino County.

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He describes how, on days when the winds were right, they would all fly to a place called the Pine Mountain Club and watch people having barbecues.

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Walk along pastoral paths, vivid green rice paddies, past bright white dzongs (massive, awe-inspiring fortress monasteries), through forests of pine, and rhododendron and along glorious mountain passes where the elusive poppies nod in the breeze.

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