Studying Burned Landscape (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Studying Burned Landscape

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Philip Dennison, a University of Utah geographer, measures burned vegetation after Southern California's 2003 Simi Fire. Dennison has devised a method to forecast the highest-risk period of large fires in the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles.

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Philip Dennison, University of Utah

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