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Jennifer Baltzer, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Forests and Global Change, Wilfrid Laurier University

'Zombie fires' are occurring more frequently in boreal forests, but their impacts remain uncertain

Smoke rising from an active fire in the Northwest Territories. (Sander Veraverbeke), Author provided

“Zombie fires” are fires that ignite in one fire season, smoulder through the winter months under the snow, and re-emerge early in the spring before lightning and human caused ignitions begin in earnest.

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