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Deploying Fire Suppression in Yukon Flats
Deploying Fire Suppression in Yukon Flats, AK - Woodwell Climate
1.6 million acres of the Yukon Flats refuge to piloting a new firefighting regime, one designed to protect carbon, in addition to human lives and property.
Yukon Flats Fire Management | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
The most common source of fire on the Yukon Flats is lightening. Combined with low precipitation, high summer temperatures, and the presence of highly flammable ...
An Alaska wildlife refuge is changing its wildfire strategy to limit ...
At the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, managers are experimenting with a fire plan aimed at protecting the sequestered carbon on the boreal forest floor.
Epic blazes threaten Arctic permafrost. Can firefighters save it?
... fires. Still, because of the looming climate crisis, many researchers say that the suppression efforts at the Yukon Flats might be worthwhile.
An Alaska wildlife refuge is changing its wildfire strategy to limit ...
At the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, managers are experimenting with a fire plan aimed at protecting the sequestered carbon on the boreal forest floor.
Alaska firefighters experiment with targeting blazes to save carbon
The experiment is so far only theoretical — after an unusually quiet Alaska fire season, Yukon Flats Refuge manager Jimmy Fox said the agency's ...
The role of boreal fires in climate change in four graphics
Yukon Flats is underlain by large swaths of carbon-rich permafrost soils, at risk of thawing and combusting in deep-burning fires. Map of Yukon ...
Alaska refuge adopts new fire management to protect carbon stores
The Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Interior Alaska is adopting a new fire management plan this summer.
Why Alaska's elite firefighters are being deployed to protect its ...
The elite firefighters – known as smokejumpers – are being deployed along the frontlines in the remote Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
Continued precipitation proves beneficial for Upper Yukon Zone
Firefighters in the Yukon Flats have been aided by several days of cool, wet weather. The favorable weather has allowed firefighters to ...
New project will inform firefighting efforts to maximize carbon ...
Many questions remain about the Yukon Flats pilot project. Will suppressing fires to avoid carbon emissions lead to larger fires in the future?
BLM AFS firefighters working on small fire north of Beaver
The Yukon Flats, which also falls within the red flag area, has already experienced several days of hot, dry and even a few days of windy ...
Government of Yukon preparing for wildfire season
The Government of Yukon encourages Yukoners to reduce wildfire risk at home by applying FireSmart principles to their properties. Yukoners ...
Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge 2022-2023 Annual Report
... suppress one of these fires when it threatened nearby Alaska. Native allotments. No fires impacted any of the newly designated yedoma protection areas. Photo ...
A Firefighter's Guide to Protecting Yedoma Permafrost on the Yukon ...
Roughly 3.5 million acres of Yedoma permafrost has been mapped on Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge (YFNWR) lands. Wildfire removes the deep ...
Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge - Annual Staff Report
Suppression actions were taken on seven of the 15 fires. Only fire #187 had an Incident Management Team assigned. This incident was also significant because ...
2019 Upper Yukon Flats Wildfires: Chalkyitsik and Cornucopia ...
... fires burning east of Chalkyitsik and west of Fort Yukon. The highest priority for fire personnel was to ensure the protection of the Gwich ...
Services | Yukon First Nations Wildfire
Our Sustained Action (SA) wildland firefighters are deployed to strengthen fire control lines. These 20-person crews handle large-scale objectives and ...
The chipper the Yukon Flats crew was working while working in Division Zulu was temperamental and at times was down for service.
Yukon Wildland Fire Management's 2020 fire season in review
... Fire Management is installing ... Similar to Yukon, Ontario's Ministry of Natural. Resources and Forestry recalibrated their wildfire suppression ...