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This photo shows a fi re in a spruce forest in the Innoko National Wildife Refuge. Scientists at SNRAS are studying the effects of fi re on carbon bioavailability in soils, boreal forest soil respiration, climate change, and the ecology of morel mushrooms. Other fi rerelated projects study the vulnerability of human populations to wildfi re, fuel loads in forests, and management methods that benefi t both humans and the forest ecosystem. For reports on fi re-related projects, see pages 8 and 27.