What Are the Effects of Fire on the American West?

From the tree's perspective, fire is quite normal. It it's a many species even need fire to open their seeds and help perpetuate them. Wild fires are another good example of how things can go wrong when you move species around the world. In the american west, where we're really seeing in this country, the worst effects of fire,. hard to disentangle a change in climate and the effects of fire suppression.