2010 will be the 10th anniversary of the Cerro Grande Fire and my book will be released around the anniversary if not before. As of January, the Cerro Grande burn area is covered with a great deal of snow but in the spring the many young aspens will leaf out and the birds will chirp.

We’ll see how the fire season of 2010 is but we can feel some peace knowing most of the lessons of Cerro Grande were learned by the federal land management agencies. If communities like Los Alamos learned the lessons, only time will tell.

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