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Landscape after a fire

By Fort Collins Science Center August 2020 (approx.)
burned landscape, with brown grasses in foreground and yellow hills in the background
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Burned area following the Mullen fire in 2020 in southern Wyoming. Invasive annual grasses may be becoming more abundant at higher elevations after disturbances like fire, and tools are needed to accurately map potential invasions across topographic gradients. Photo by Janet Prevéy (USGS).

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