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A Forest After Fire

3 minutes 33 seconds

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Year after year massive fires continue to rip through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) in Colorado. Some scientists fear that the forests may not be able to recover due to a warming climate. Colorado University PhD student Monica Rother investigates post-fire ecosystems in an effort to predict what the Colorado Front Range might look like in a warmer, drier future. Part of the WildFire PIRE series.

Media Details

Runtime: 3 minutes 33 seconds

Yellow wildflower in foreground, low shrubs and dead trees in background. Boulder County Colorado Front Range. Caption: (Rother) This is a portion of the 2003 Overland Fire.
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 1
3 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Green foliage in foreground overlooking basin with a lake surrounded by tree covered hills. Caption: The kinds of plants that came back were even more flammable.
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 2
3 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Rolling hillside spotted with evergreen trees. Caption: lodgepole pine, that was introduced from North America
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 3
3 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Tall, thin trees choked with brush. Caption: Fire is a landscape process.
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 4
4 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black and white photo of a building engulfed in flames. Caption: What happened here on the seventh of February, 1967,
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 5
7 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Aerial view of mountains with water-filled craters. Caption: I became curious what this was like in the past.
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 6
4 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A field of burned grass with a tractor in the middle of it. Caption: As you can see, it's devastated the whole district.
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 7
5 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Closeup of hands holding a narrow, red tubular object. Caption: With a warmer climate, do we suspect to see more fire?
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 8
9 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Three people walking through the woods. Caption: I think back to the project quite a bit.
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 9
4 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Empty sand beach. Caption: When the Maori arrived to New Zealand in 900 AD it was one of the last places on earth to be settled by humans.
WildFIRE PIRE
Episode 10
7 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12