This picture, taken looking east toward a peak called “St. Peter’s Dome”, shows the aftermath of the Las Conchas fire, which burned in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico in June and July of 2011.

The Jemez Mountains once acted like a sponge. That was before the 2011 Las Conchas Fire, at the time the largest wildfire in New Mexico history, covering 156,000 acres. More than a decade later ...