SNAP.UAF.EDU. Area burned in Alaska 1950–1989 Acres burned per year 1950-1989: 27,148,432

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Scott RuppScenarios Network for Alaska + Arctic Planning

Fairbanks, AK

August 2015

Boreal Forest and Wildfires

Area burned in Alaska 1950–1989

Acres burnedper year

1950-1989: 27,148,432

Area burned in Alaska 1990–2015

Acres burnedper year

1950-1989: 27,148,432 1990-2015: 36,687,882

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Fairbanks

Fairbanks, Alaska, engulfed in forest fire smoke (July 2004)

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J. Jessee

Number of days Fairbanks met or exceeded the “unhealthy for sensitive groups” air quality

level in summer 2015.

Number of those days on which the air quality in Fairbanks was

worse than the average airquality in Beijing.

Source: EPA

Changing vegetation

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Habitat change and subsistence

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