Lori Daniels and a team of researchers plan to let a hand-held GPS guide them in a few weeks to more than 100 spots in the charred forest around Jasper, Alta.

At each location, they'll plunge a stake into the ground and take notes. Are there needles left on the trees? The branches? How far up is the tree charred? Are roots exposed?

In fewer words, they'll be asking: how bad was the fire?

Daniels, who has been back to Jasper several times since last summer's destructive fire, says she has partly observed the answer to that question.

There are parts of the Jasper fire that were absolutely shocking." - Lori Daniels

"I've seen a lot of devastating fires across British Columbia in the last decade. I've spent a lot of time in burnt forest," said Daniels, a professor and co-director at th

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