Hot summers, intense burn seasons seed zombie fires: study
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19/05/2021 - 17:10 The phrase zombie fires comes from their apparent ability to rise from the dead Robyn Beck AFP/File 4 min
Paris (AFP) Zombie fires that linger under the winter snow in the forests of the Northern Hemisphere tend to re-ignite after hotter summers, according to a study on Wednesday warning that climate change may make them more common.
Normally fires in Arctic regions are caused either by lightning strikes or humans but recent years have seen increasing reports of smouldering soil that sparks into flame in spring, with huge blazes in Siberia in 2020 partly attributed to this phenomenon.
Zombie fires in the Arctic are linked to climate change
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Wallowa County landowners battle an invasion: junipers, April 1, 2020
ENTERPRISE â At first glance, they look like ordinary evergreen trees: a little short, a little rotund, but harmless enough. But junipers are opportunists of the highest order, gobbling up some of Wallowa Countyâs grassland and water resources at a fierce rate.
Now, thanks to the teamwork of range conservationist J. Johansen and 6 Ranch owner Liza Jane McAlister, the Natural Resources Conservation Service is dedicating more than $1.8 million to help landowners remove these native, but invasive, trees from 4,500 acres of Wallowa Countyâs private lands. The work got started this week.
The 6 Ranch, just west of Enterprise, will be among the first landowners to take advantage of the new NRCS Ecological Function Restoration juniper treatment program.