Fire and Regeneration: A Canoeing.com Feature
7 Aug
A fire burns, a forest grows, a forest changes.
In Canoeing.com’s latest Nature & Environment section feature story, contributor Alissa Johnson examines the ecological impact of last year’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness fires. Two blazes left 165 square miles of contiguous forest burned.
The 2007 fires engulfed trees toppled in the 1999 BWCAW “blowdown” which affected more than 780 square miles of the popular wilderness canoe destination and adjoining Superior National Forest.
Johnson’s feature — titled: The Aftermath of Fire: Regeneration after the Cavity Lake and Ham Lake Fires — finds that the forest in regenerating and changing before paddlers’ eyes.
Photo courtesy Carol DeSain.
