EditorialSmoke from a wildfire over the Klamath National Forest in northern California on Aug. 16, 2022. Les Knight says he has begun to see humans as the most destructive of invasive species. (Mason Trinca/The New York Times)
EditorialA thru-hiker walks along a burned portion of the Pacific Crest Trail in the Klamath National Forest and the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Northern California, on Aug. 18, 2022. (Mason Trinca/The New York Times)
EditorialTule Lake National Wildlife Refuge in California, near the Oregon border, has been severely affected by the drought and the lack of irrigation waters from Upper Klamath Lake, which usually feeds into the refuge. (Will Matsuda/The New York Times)
EditorialFirefighters from the Carson Hotshots on a hillside in Klamath National Forest in Northern California on Sept 17, 2020, after carrying out a burnout operation to help contain the Slater fire. (Bryan Denton/The New York Times)
EditorialUpper Klamath Lake, Rock Point, Klamath, Oregon, United States, Bombus (Pyrobombus) vosnesenskii Radoszkowski, Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta, Hymenoptera, Apidae, Apinae.
Editorialnear Headquarters, Crater Lake National Park, Klamath, Oregon, United States, Orthostigma sculleni Fischer, Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta, Hymenoptera, Braconidae.
EditorialA firefighters looks for hot spots in Happy Camp, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, as they prepared to allow residents to return to the isolated mountain community in Klamath National Forest. (Bryan Denton/The New York Times)