{"id":1058817,"date":"2022-09-28T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1058817"},"modified":"2022-09-28T09:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:30:04","slug":"western-forests-snowpack-and-wildfires-appear-trapped-in-vicious-climate-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1058817","title":{"rendered":"Western forests, snowpack, and wildfires appear trapped in vicious climate cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/snowmelt-800x543-1.jpg\" alt=\"On the last day of summer, fall colors contrast with the burnt landscape of the Cameron Peak Fire on Sept. 21, 2021, in Larimer County, Colorado.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/snowmelt.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1737\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> On the last day of summer, fall colors contrast with the burnt landscape of the Cameron Peak Fire on Sept. 21, 2021, in Larimer County, Colorado. (credit: RJ Sangosti\/MediaNews Group\/The Denver Post via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kampf_stephanie\">Stephanie Kampf<\/a> visited one of her wildfire test plots near Colorado\u2019s Joe Wright Reservoir in June of 2021, the charred remains of what had been a cool, shady spruce and fir forest before the Cameron Peak Fire incinerated it nearly took her breath away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would walk through these burned areas and they were just black, nothing growing and already getting kind of hot,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd then you walk into an unburned patch, and there\u2019d still be snow on the ground. You could almost breathe more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The surveys, up at about 10,000 feet in the Rocky Mountains west of Fort Collins, were part of a rapid response science assessment to measure just how much the extreme 2020 wildfire season in the West disrupted the water-snow cycle in the critical late-snowmelt zone that serves as a huge natural reservoir. The snowmelt sustains river flows that nurture ecosystems, fills irrigation ditches for crops, and delivers supplies of industrial and drinking water to communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1885144#p3\">Read 16 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1885144&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1885144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western forests, snowpack, and wildfires appear trapped in vicious climate cycle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ On the last day of summer, fall colors contrast with the burnt landscape of the Cameron Peak Fire on Sept. 21, 2021, in Larimer County, Colorado. 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