1988 wildfire season
Yellowstone: Reading a Fire Mosaic Over Decades
Repeat photography, field plots and landscape observation show that severity and surviving biological material varied across the park.
- Place
- Yellowstone National Park, United States
- System
- Rocky Mountain forests, meadows and watersheds
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1980 volcanic eruption
Mount St. Helens: Recovery Along Multiple Pathways
Ground research and satellite records reveal a landscape shaped by biological legacies, new substrates, topography and distance from surviving habitat.
- Place
- Washington, United States
- System
- Temperate forest, lakes, meadows and new volcanic surfaces
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2021 Dixie Fire
Lassen: Mapping Severity After the Dixie Fire
Initial mapping documented unchanged, low-, moderate- and high-severity areas, giving managers a baseline for targeted assessment.
- Place
- Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, United States
- System
- Mixed-conifer forest, meadow and volcanic landscape
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