Caldor fire winter (IMAGE)

Desert Research Institute

Caldor fire winter

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Snow under burned trees from the Caldor fire. The new study shows that snow melted more rapidly during midwinter drought conditions within the footprints of wildfires.

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Anne Heggli, DRI

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