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Climate Change Impacts on Fire Return Intervals
In recent years, Alaska has seen the largest (2004), second largest (2015), third largest (2005) and sixth largest (2009) fire years since 1940, and observed increases in area burned in Canada during the last four decades are linked with warming summer season temperatures. To the surprise and concern of fire and resource managers, some of these fires burned across fire scars from the previous decade or decades, an uncharacteristic phenomenon in boreal forests. This project is assessing the ecological and management implications of repeat fires. Funding from the NWB LCC is contributing to a large effort to model the conditions under which new fires burn into older fires, the behavior of those fires, and the potential ecological effects of repeat burns across lowland and upland boreal forests across many locations in Alaska.
Our Role
Funder
Project Leader
National Park Service
Partners
USGS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Contact
Jennifer Barnes: jennifer_barnes@nps.gov
More information
Report coming soon!
Topics
Climate Change
Approaches
Scientific Research
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A once burned white spruce stand 8 years after the Chakina fire in Wrangell-St. Elias is thick with fireweed, aspen, willow and young white spruce trees in the understory. Photo: Jennifer Barnes/NPS
Thank You

The Northwest Boreal Partnership would like to thank our generous core funders: the Volgenau Foundation, Alaska Conservation Foundation, National Science Foundation, Network for Landscape Conservation, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. 

​Photos for this site provided by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Tanana Chiefs Conference.
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