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Better weather ahead for Navajo Nation wildfire

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
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Better weather ahead for Navajo Nation wildfire

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — As summer approaches, relief is in sight for drought-stricken New Mexico and many other parts of the West as Mother Nature appears ready to ease up on her back-to-back blows of stifling heat and gusty winds.

A break in the unfavorable weather can’t come soon enough for the hundreds of firefighters battling a blaze on the Navajo Nation that has consumed more than 20 square miles of pinon and juniper forest along with grazing lands that tribal livestock owners have used for centuries.

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