Skip to contentReviewsEnvironmentA podcast challenges us to reassess our relationship with wildfiresUnited by Fire explores lessons from the two largest blazes in Colorado history Flames devoured pines and other vegetation in the Arapaho National Forest and Rocky Mountain National Park during the East Troublesome Fire in 2020. The blaze, the subject of a new podcast, is the second largest wildfire in Colorado history.milehightraveler/istock/getty images plusBy Nikk Ogasa1 hour agoUnited by FireDenver Museum of Nature & ScienceAvailable wherever you get your podcastsFor hundreds of millions of years, wildfires were directed solely by the weather, vegetation and terrain. But in the last century in the United States, people have sought to suppress even those beneficial fires that would otherwise clear out dead vegetation, which can fuel wildfires, and stimulate new growth. Now, catastrophic megafires erupt each year, and in some places, climate change has extended the fire season. Clearly something has to give our society must change its relationship with fire.