Coring Chickaree Lake (IMAGE)

The University of Montana

Coring Chickaree Lake

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Philip Higuera, a University of Montana professor of fire ecology (right), and his team examine a lake-sediment core from Chickaree Lake in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park. The core is used to reconstruct fire and vegetation history over thousands of years.

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Photo by Grace Carter

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