Roughly six weeks after the Dragon Bravo Fire surged past its initial containment lines to spread across the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, the fire has effectively come to a standstill. And with fire activity now limited to “creeping and smoldering,” the transition to recovery efforts has begun.

One immediate concern is what will happen when significant rain falls within the burn scar. Fire-induced changes in soil properties and the loss of ground-cover vegetation mean there is a higher risk of flash flooding and debris flows in some of the Grand Canyon’s drainages, as well as increased transportation of ash-laden sediment into the North Rim aquifers supplying drinking water to the national park. Copy article link

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