The Watershed Death Spirale

The drought will obviously dries up everything so that it creates fires is pretty obvious. But what if your fires get too intense, like traditionally in nature, you do have fires in their smaller scale. And then the other thing is that the fires can destroy some of the vegetation that's holding in the soil. What happens in floods is that there's so much water and maybe it's stopped further up here, but then it accumulates and it just creates these landslides.

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