![Bollowing smoke rising from evergreen covered mountainside and helicopter approaches.](https://modernconservationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/29220270877_189371b50d_k-e1545020699543.jpg)
A helicopter drops water onto the forest fires in California’s Mendocino National Forest in 2018. (U.S. Forest Service/Cecilio Ricardo)
(Forest Service photo by Cecilio Ricardo)
A helicopter drops water onto the forest fires in California’s Mendocino National Forest in 2018. (U.S. Forest Service/Cecilio Ricardo)
(Forest Service photo by Cecilio Ricardo)