Jack Healy
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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This is really just the latest sign of how devastating this wildfire season has become only just a few days into the official start of summer.
Conditions across the West have been primed for a terrible fire season, and we are starting to see that come to pass, unfortunately.
It was a very dry winter with limited snows, and then things heated up extraordinarily quickly, burning away the snowpack and really parching the ground.
So what you have is a deadly tinderbox across multiple Western states.
And so it's going to be a very long and very difficult summer out here.
The Headlines · Extreme Water Shortages in the West, and Hegseth’s Pentagon Purge · 2 Jun 2026
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I've been covering drought in the West for more than 10 years, and this is probably the worst I've ever seen it.
The winter basically just didn't happen in a lot of the Rocky Mountains.
The snow never really came, and that has basically left the mountains that should be covered in snow right now bare.
And that's really scary to see at the beginning of what is expected to be a really hot summer.
Colorado, in particular, is famous for its peaches.
Its peaches are maybe the best part of a Colorado summer.
They're unbelievably sweet and juicy.
But right now, some of the peach farmers don't have enough water for their own trees.
So what they're doing is they're ripping up some of their own orchards so they can take what little water they have and focus it on keeping some of their most productive trees alive.
I talked to corn and bean farmers who are basically letting half of their fields go unplanted this year because they don't have enough water.
I talked to farmers who are selling off parts of their livestock herds because they don't have enough grass to actually keep those cows fed.
Big picture, the West is getting hotter and the Colorado River that brings water to 40 million people and 5 million acres of farmland is shrinking.
And I just think that this year we're at the kind of crisis point that the West has been dreading for decades.
And without some pretty drastic action and deep cuts and, you know, hopefully, you know, some pretty torrential summer monsoon rains, the problem is only going to get worse.
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