USGS Multimedia Gallery for tag: wildfire

http://gallery.usgs.gov/images/logos/usgs_only.jpg USGS Multimedia Gallery for tag: wildfire http://gallery.usgs.gov/ en-us OC_Web@usgs.gov (Office of Communications Web Group) http://gallery.usgs.gov/images/USGS.gif USGS http://gallery.usgs.gov/ <![CDATA[Tree-Killing Las Conchas Fire in New Mexico]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_26_2012_cHWj0NMa87_09_26_2012_0 USGS scientist Craig D. Allen observes the results of the extensive, tree-killing fire that consumed almost all above-ground biomass in this part of the Las Conchas Fire burn area in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico. Photo taken in late August 2011, two months post-fire. Forest drought stress is highly correlated with mortality from poor growth, bark beetle outbreaks, and high-severity fire.

]]> <![CDATA[Trees Killed by the 2011 Las Conchas Fire in New Mexico ]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_26_2012_cHWj0NMa87_09_26_2012_1 Extensive, contiguous mortality of piñon pine, ponderosa pine, and Douglas-fir trees, killed in the first afternoon and evening of the 2011 Las Conchas Fire in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico. Forest drought stress is highly correlated with mortality from poor growth, bark beetle outbreaks, and high-severity fire.

]]> <![CDATA[Drought and Beetle-Killed Pi�on Pines in Arizona]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/09_26_2012_cHWj0NMa87_09_26_2012_3 Drought and beetle-killed piñon pines in Walnut Canyon National Monument near Flagstaff, Arizona, amid some surviving trees. Forest drought stress is highly correlated with mortality from poor growth, bark beetle outbreaks, and high-severity fire.

]]> <![CDATA[Burned Trees after wildfire in Gila National Forest]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/07_03_2012_fja4DQp10W_07_03_2012_0 Burned trees along the trail into Hummingbird Saddle, Gila National Forest, New Mexico, where USGS scientists installed a rain gage.

]]> <![CDATA[USGS rain gage installation]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/07_03_2012_fja4DQp10W_07_03_2012_1 USGS scientist finishes the installation of a rain gage at Hummingbird Saddle, Gila National Forest, New Mexico.

]]> <![CDATA[Helicopter View of Gila Wilderness Area]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/07_03_2012_fja4DQp10W_07_03_2012_2 Aerial view of the Gila Wilderness Area on the approach to Mogollon Baldy Lookout, where USGS scientists installed a rain gage to provide advance flood warning, Gila National Forest, New Mexico.

]]> <![CDATA[2012 Wildland Fires - Waldo Canyon, CO]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_28_2012_uYPc62Err4_06_28_2012_0 2012 is the worst fire season on record for many areas of the U.S.

The USGS plays an integral role in preparing for and responding to wildfires by providing tools and information before, during and after to identify wildfire risks and reduce hazards, while often providing real-time firefighting support. When the fires are contained, USGS scientists assess the aftermath of wildfires in order to build more resilient communities and ecosystems. This shot shows fires burning in Waldo Canyon in Colorado.

]]> <![CDATA[2012 Wildland Fires - Waldo Canyon, CO]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_28_2012_uYPc62Err4_06_28_2012_1 2012 is the worst fire season on record for many areas of the U.S.

]]> <![CDATA[2012 Wildland Fires - Waldo Canyon, CO]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_28_2012_uYPc62Err4_06_28_2012_2 2012 is the worst fire season on record for many areas of the U.S.

]]> <![CDATA[Electronics shelter on Flood-Alert Instrument Tower]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_24_2011_fJAl15Occ7_08_24_2011_0 Electronics inside the instrument shelter, which includes a high-data-rate transmitter (upper right) and line-of-sight receiver (middle left). The line-of-sight receiver picks up transmissions from the remote rain gage at the look-out area at the top of the Montezuma Pass, Arizona.

]]> <![CDATA[Rain Gage, Montezuma Pass, AZ]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_24_2011_fJAl15Occ7_08_24_2011_1 Remote rain gage affixed to the roof line of a building at the top of Montezuma Pass, Arizona.

]]> <![CDATA[Flood-Alert Instrument Tower]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_24_2011_fJAl15Occ7_08_24_2011_2 Flood-alert instrument tower with electronics shelter and precipitation gage at top of tower.

]]> <![CDATA[Withered Giant]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/07_01_2011_y17Gw33VVq_07_01_2011_1 A massive Coulter pine that was burned in the 2007 Lake Arrowhead/Grass Valley wildfires stands alone on a hillside regrown with Manzanita, dwarfing USGS Western Ecological Research Center director Steven Schwarzbach.

]]> <![CDATA[Landsat Photo: Wallow Fire, Arizona]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/06_09_2011_swn0QEc55K_06_09_2011_0

This Landsat imagery was taken on June 7, 2011. Path/Row: 35/36 and 37 Lat/Long: 33.820/-109.330

]]> <![CDATA[Scientists study Fourmile Creek Burn Area]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_02_2010_gLCn1RQed8_11_02_2010_0

Older debris-flow sediment deposits in lower Emerson Gulch, burned by the Fourmile Canyon wildfire; view is upstream.

]]> <![CDATA[Scientists study Fourmile Creek Burn Area]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/11_02_2010_gLCn1RQed8_11_02_2010_1

Upper Emerson Gulch, burned by the Fourmile Canyon wildfire; view is downstream.

]]> <![CDATA[Medano Creek Wildfire]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_l52Sk87jie_08_13_2010_0 <![CDATA[Native Fish and Wildfire]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/08_13_2010_l52Sk87jie_08_13_2010_1 <![CDATA[Wildfire Haze Over Santa Barbara]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/03_08_2010_bFVi0MLyx6_03_08_2010_17 <![CDATA[]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/52 <![CDATA[]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/53 <![CDATA[]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/54 <![CDATA[]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/55 <![CDATA[]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/56 <![CDATA[]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/57