Science Moab: The hot topic of wildfire science
This discussion was captured live early in 2022 in St. George and pertains to the impacts of wildfires on the land and its inhabitants.
This discussion was captured live early in 2022 in St. George and pertains to the impacts of wildfires on the land and its inhabitants.
This is the first in a two-part series on the science of fire, brought to you by Science Moab’s partners at Utah Tech University and the Southern Utah Science Cafe.
Even when there are no wildfires to fight, fire personnel and land managers are working to mitigate future ignitions by rearranging or removing the fuels that feed them—trees and shrubs in both wild…