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Event
Waterton-Glacier Science and History Week: The Impact of Wildfires on Watersheds
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Fee:
Free.Dates & Times
Date:
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Time:
12:00 PM
Duration:
1 hour
Type of Event
Talk
Virtual/Digital
Description
While wildfires are a natural component of healthy forest ecosystems, they have increased in frequency and severity over the previous two to three decades. This is raising concerns over how wildfires can impact watersheds. Watersheds regulate the amount and timing of flows, water quality, aquatic ecosystem health and downstream water supplies. Join Uldis Silins, Forest Hydrology Professor at University of Alberta, to learn more about the scope and longevity of some of these effects from long-term watershed research after the 2017 Kenow fire and the nearby Lost Creek fire in 2003.
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