Fire photos and videos

Who isn’t fascinated by wildland fire? I am privileged to be able to study such a cool phenomenon.

Here is a tasting of some great fire images from the great Canadian wild.

Just a random little fire, started by lightning somewhere in Wood Buffalo National Park (southern Northwest Territories), June 2006; landscape is typical of the boreal muskeg – poorly drained soil, lots of water, lots of organic material, small trees.

This is from a walk through a 2005 fire one year later – tens of thousands of jack pine seedlings per hectare, naturally regenerated following wildfire (pine cone is about 5-7 cm or 2-3 inches long).

 

On the ecotone (ecosystem transition area) between the southern boreal plains and prairie grasslands of Saskatchewan; this is a 2009 prescribed burn in Prince Albert National Park designed to restore a grassland ecosystem. The fire is burning through a decadent stand of trembling aspen, burning as a relatively high intensity surface fire.

 

This is a more typical fire photo for the boreal forest – high intensity active (continuous) crown fire burning through black and white spruce. This is probably the type of fire that created this stand in the first place. Wood Buffalo National Park, 2007.