Weeks after heavy rain helped California's super bloom, drying flowers are providing fuel for harsher wildfires.
In California's Central Valley, vibrant wildflower blooms are drying into brittle fuel for wildfires. Now land managers and property owners are under deadlines to clear brush and mitigate risk before peak fire season later this year.
But now as temperatures rise and flowers die, what's left blanketing valley floors and hillsides are layers and layers of thick fuel for grass fires. Johna Hurl manages Carrizo Plain National Monument, a vast grassland outside Bakersfield. She told Scripps News a small grass fire Monday was a good reminder of the risks on the horizon.
Many of the thickest deposits sitting in the wake of California's wildflowers are in rural areas, but fires that start rural can often still become a threat to human life and property.
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