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Collecting soil and charcoal sample after a wildfire

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
A man is leaning over and is scooping soil from a wildfire-charred hillslope and placing the soil in a sample bag.
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Detailed Description

Brett Tipple (University of California, Santa Cruz) collects a sample of charcoal and soil adjacent to a gully forming on a hillslope above Sonoma Creek, which was burned by the Nuns wildfire in October 2017.

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Public Domain.