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Zach Behrens
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Taos, NM | Public lands and fire communicator. Interested in systems thinking. Personal account.
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I’ve visited dark sky areas before moving to one, but there’s nothing like living under it. The act of just looking up while walking from your car to the front door is wondrous.

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Reporting in from Taos, N.M.
Vibrant red northern lights under a dark sky full of stars over a small building and trailer.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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It’s nice there, too. From the nephew
Green and purple with a steak of pink northern lights over a beach.
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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*Via Della Spada
March 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Hrmm, it does like a good time for A Place of Greater Safety
February 8, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Hansen (2012) does the hard math looking at many variables, but here's the basic summary: an intense brushfire with average 8ft flames requires ~264,000 gallons/acre to extinguish. The top flow from a fire hydrant is 1,500 g/m. This is why we cut line.
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Estimating the amount of water required to extinguish wildfires under different conditions and in various fuel types
In wildland fires where water is used as the primary extinguishing agent, one of the issues of wildfire suppression is estimating how much water is required to extinguish a certain section of the fire...
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January 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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What is the process behind the color change once a petal is pollinated?
January 16, 2025 at 4:27 AM