In 1994 lightning triggered a fire that torched a 22,000-acre swath of boreal spruce forest in Interior Alaska, about 90 miles south of Fairbanks. This 2001 radio broadcast describes work by fire ecologists, seven years later, to determine how the forest is regrowing and whether these northern forest fires are contributing to global warming by releasing significant amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. The clip is 4 minutes and 34 seconds in length.
This description of a site outside SERC has not been vetted by SERC staff and may be incomplete or incorrect. If you
have information we can use to flesh out or correct this record let us know.
This resource originally cataloged at:
