They will record plant species, forest structure, ash cover, soil properties, river sediment and the overall topography of the burned area.
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We ford streams, some deep as Nell's knees, then head into a vast, newly burned area where dust covers our faces and the air still smells of ash.
By Sunday, when government officials finally felt safe enough to see the destruction, homes, businesses and vehicles were burned throughout the area.
We're in a burned-out area of Yellowstone National Park, miles from any road, surrounded by hundreds of acres of fire-blackened lodgepole pines, the hooves of our 17-animal pack train kicking up dust.
The Silverado Fire near Yountville, in Napa County, burned an even smaller area and was 75 percent contained.
The fires burned near the docking area of the Carnival Triumph, he added.
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The fire, in the Coonabarabran area, had burned through nearly 40, 000 hectares, Australian media reported.
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They burned down an electrical transformer station, leaving the area with no electricity for over a week, and then burned down a replacement station.
Protection Force (UNPROFOR) has received reports that Croat troops have looted and burned houses in a northwest Bosnia area that will fall under Serb control under this week's peace plan.
Upon looking at the burned up bodies the police abandoned the area immediately.
Police are combing an area near Big Bear Lake, 80 miles (128 km) east of Los Angeles, after finding the suspect's burned-out truck near a ski area.
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In 1995, forest fires in Canada burned more than 17 million acres, an area half the size of Florida.
Last month, hooded men burned the house of another family in the area.
He said that at the moment the area was derelict and sometimes littered with burned-out cars and bike scramblers.
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The conflagration burned for three days, killing hundreds and destroying an area covering nearly four square miles, including over 18, 000 buildings.
In Griffith, a town near Narrandera, militant farmers burned piled-up copies of the water-use plan, which would affect an area of 2m people that provides about 40% of the output from Australia's farms.
In September, a twin-engine, two-seat AH-1W Cobra helicopter went down during training in a remote area of Camp Pendleton, killing two Marine pilots and igniting a brush fire that burned about 120 acres at the base north of San Diego.
That fire has burned nearly 2 square miles, and fire managers said it has the potential to grow much more in an area where logs are drier than pine boards from a lumber yard.
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