Fire Breaks Down and Builds up Boreal Forest
![Cottongrass springs up on the site of a 2015 wildfire on Birch Creek in Interior Alaska. Photo by Ned Rozell. Fire Breaks Down and Builds up Boreal Forest](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/image10-06-2016-10.47.32.jpg)
I once wrote about how fire had ravaged more than 10 percent of Interior Alaska during two smoky summers. A wildlife biologist called me out for choosing an inadequate verb. Tom Paragi chooses words that are more positive when he looks at a burned forest. Paragi works with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game […]