Bear Fire in Arizona
Bear Fire in Arizona
12July 2006
Nearly two weeks after it started, the Bear Fire had burned20,700 ha of mixed conifer forest in western New Mexicos Gila National Forest, said the National Interagency Fire Center in its3 July 2006, report.
EO-1- ALI
30 June 2006
The fire was about 95 percent contained when the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASAs EO-1 satellite captured this false-color image on30 June 2006. (The image is made from ALIs observations of shortwave infrared,near-infrared, and blue light to make the burn scar more obvious than it would be in a photo-like image.) The newly burned area is deepreddish-brown, while the surrounding unburned vegetation is bright green. Places of naturally bare ground(or very sparse vegetation) appear orange. Clouds float overhead and cast black shadows to their west. No large plumes of smoke or glowing fire fronts indicated that the fire was stillburning. The fire was detected on 19 June. The Forest Service reports that it was started when a campfire burned out ofcontrol.
Gila National Forest contains the Gila Wilderness Area, the first land designated as wilderness area in the UnitedStates. As this image shows, the landscape is dominated by steep mountains, the tallest of which reaches 3,321 meters inelevation. The Gila National Forest is the sixth largest National Forest in the contiguous UnitedStates.
(source: EarthObservatory)
See also previous updates on this event:
For more information see:
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National Interagency Fire Center
