Meg Krawchuk featured in two recent articles

Meg Krawchuk has been featured in two recent fire refugia and climate articles in March. Her team is dedicated to accelerating the science and management of fire refugia. Wildfires are disturbances in the ecosystems of western Canada and the United States that results in major damage. Landscape heterogeneity produced by burning, which can include a range in severity from unburned patches to high severity fire, is important to conserving characteristic biodiversity of fire-adapted ecosystems. Fire islands, residuals, remnants, skips, shadows, refuges, refugia, or unburned patches are all terms used to describe areas at the low end of the burn severity spectrum. We use the term fire refugia to describe places that are disturbed less frequently or less severely by wildfire than the surrounding landscape matrix.

An understanding of the processes and patterns of fire refugia formation, maintenance, and ecosystem role is critical to meet landscape fire management and ecosystem restoration goals, now and into the future.

Fire Refugia Paper: https://share.google/22x3Pe4sowBz4zgUi