RBC I Years ago, some good friends of mine bought a house outside of Fort Collins, Colo. An army of dry, red-needled trees—casualties of a massive mountain pine beetle infestation—surrounded their property. To me, the landscape looked ripe for a wildfire.
And it was: In June 2012, that forest and mountainside neighborhood ignited in the High Park Fire. But the infestation wasn’t to blame for the blaze, one among many in what became a historically…