Old-growth tree stumps tell the story of fire in the upper Midwest

Monday, March 14, 2011 - 11:50 in Earth & Climate

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers have constructed a 226-year history of fire in southern Illinois by looking at fire scars in tree stumps. Their study, the most in-depth fire history reported for the...

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