With wildfires burning in Texas, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Florida, and Georgia in addition to the headline-grabbing Arizona Wallow Fire, this article from the Denver Post on the Arizona fire’s effect on endangered wildlife is worth a look.

The news: while adult spotted owls should have been able to fly away from tree crown fires, their nestlings and young likely didn’t make it. Find out more about species ranging from wolves to trout in the Denver Post story.

Photo: This is a controlled burn on a Maryland national wildlife refuge, but you get the idea. Photo credit: Catherine Hibbard, courtesy of US Fish and Wildlife Service