Seeing Burned Trees from Winter Skis

By WenatcheeOutdoors

Jan. 19, 2013

While many of us spent New Years’ Day lazing in a vegetative slump, Matt Dahlgreen and his wife were busy skiing near Blewett Pass. Matt is a retired USFS forest ecologist and silviculturist and is now a forester with The Nature Conservancy, so he couldn’t resist taking a seasoned ecologist’s eye to survey the effects from the 2012 Peavine Fire. From his vantage on a ridge above Tronsen Meadow, Matt could see about a third of the 20,000 acres burned by the Peavine Fire. He used this expedition to photograph the area and then created a slideshow with commentary on his observations about fire behavior and fire management.

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