New project will inform firefighting efforts to maximize carbon storage in Alaskan refuge

With $500K from the Joint Fire Science Program, a team will proved science needed to guide strategic fire suppression to protect forests and permafrost

Burned boreal forest trees

Burned boreal forest in Alaska.

photo by Kayla Mathes

In the US, state and federal governments regularly fight wildfires that threaten people and property, but Alaska’s Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge recently began piloting a novel strategy: putting out fires to prevent climate-warming carbon emissions from being released from trees and soils.

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