Landscape Disturbance in Pacific Northwest National Parks

Even parks transform over time—sometimes in dramatic ways! Take a visual tour through 30 years of landscape change in the North Coast & Cascades Network. The NCCN landscape change monitoring program uses satellite remote sensing to track patterns of fire, flooding, landslides, and other natural disturbances. This new analysis also offers clues as to how climate change may already be altering disturbance patterns across the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest.

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Further Information

• Read more about the ongoing NCCN landscape change monitoring program that produced this analysis
• Explore other North Coast & Cascades long-term monitoring programs
• Learn more about Landsat, or create your own timelapse of landscape change in your area using Landsat imagery! 
• Visit the eMapR Lab at Oregon State University, the NPS's partner in this work

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