Ecosystems could once bounce back from wildfires. Now, they’re being wiped out for good Outlet: Science 19 Dec, 2017 Science: To find out, ecologist Camille Stevens-Rumann of Colorado State University in Fort Collins and colleagues studied about 1500 sites in the conifer forests of the U.S. Rocky Mountains that had seen 52 wildfires between 1988 and 2011. link