Evolution of wildfires (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Evolution of wildfires

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Conceptual figure illustrates the impacts of fire exclusion and suppression on area burned and fire severity in historically frequent-fire North American forests and woodlands represented by the majority of the fire scar sites used in our analysis.

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Jessie Thoreson

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