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Peeking over wild fire smoke

December 21, 2017 by judyinalaska

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Posted in Forest Fire, Summer. Tagged alaska, blanket of smoke, environment, fairbanks, forest fire smoke, hazy pink sun, nature, outdoors, smoke, smoke obscuring the sun, summer, sun, wild fire smoke

Fire Fighters Cross Cripple Creek Road

August 2, 2016 by judyinalaska

May 15, 2010

Firefighters cross Cripple Creek Road to put out a small but potentially catastrophic fire that started when a large spruce tree fell on an electric line in the middle of a residential subdivision.

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Posted in Forest Fire, Summer. Tagged alaska, fairbanks, fire, forest, forest fire, smoke, spruce, summer, tree, trees, wildfire, wood, woods

Autumn contrasts in a burnt forest

October 10, 2015 by judyinalaska

Posted in Autumn, Forest Fire. Tagged alaska, autumn, birch, black, black spruce, burned bark, environment, nature, outdoors, spruce, trees, yellow, yellow leaves

Autumn moss takes over

October 3, 2015 by judyinalaska

Posted in Autumn, Forest Fire, Plants. Tagged alaska, autumn, autumn moss, burned forest, burnt forest, burnt tree, charred tree, charred wood, environment, forest, forest fire, nature, orange green moss, orange moss, outdoors, tree, wildfire

Autumn grasses on a burned bog

September 30, 2015 by judyinalaska

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Posted in Autumn, Forest Fire. Tagged alaska, autumn, bog, burned bog, burnt bog, burnt wetlands, environment, forest fire, nature, outdoors, parks highway, peat bog, plant, tundra, wetlands, wildfire

Forest Fire on the Dalton Highway – June 2004

July 14, 2015 by judyinalaska

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Truck driving away from forest fire smoke

Posted in Forest Fire, Humanity, Plants, Summer. Tagged alaska, black spruce, dalton highway, environment, fire, flames, forest fire, nature, outdoors, parks highway, plant, semi truck, smoke, smoky, spruce, summer, tree, trees, truck, truck driving, trucking, tundra, wildfire, woods

Pipeline & “grilled spruce tips”

October 11, 2014 by judyinalaska

Posted in Autumn, Forest Fire, Humanity, Scenery. Tagged alaska, autumn, crude oil pipeline, dalton highway, environment, forest, forest fire, nature, outdoors, pipeline, plant, spruce, trans-alaska pipeline, trees, wildfire, woods

Forest fire ash on squash leaf

July 9, 2013 by judyinalaska

Posted in Forest Fire, Plants, Summer. Tagged alaska, environment, fairbanks, fire, forest fire, garden, leaf, plant, smoke, squash leaf, summer

Forest Fire in the Tanana Valley

July 1, 2013 by judyinalaska

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For information on current fires in Alaska go to the Jack Jessee Blog.

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Posted in Forest Fire, Summer. Tagged alaska, environment, fairbanks, fire, forest, forest fire, nature, outdoors, parks highway, river, sky, smoke, spruce, summer, sunset, tanana valley, trees, wildfire, woods

The Moon, Denali, & a Smokey Valley

June 28, 2013 by judyinalaska

Posted in Forest Fire, Scenery. Tagged alaska, denali, environment, fairbanks, fire, forest, forest fire, mckinley, moon, mountain, mt mckinley, nature, parks highway, smoke, tanana valley, trees, valley, wildfire

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