EditorialFirefighters try to stop the oncoming Dixie fire in Lassen National Forest in California on Aug. 25, 2021. (Brent McDonald/The New York Times)
EditorialVisitors gaze out at Lassen Peak, which erupted in 1915, in Lassen Volcanic National Park in Calfiornia on July 13, 2011. (Andy Isaacson/The New York Times)