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A healthy boreal forest absorbs more carbon than it releases, but only if fires are spaced far enough apart for the ecosystem to recover between them. This diagram shows what happens when they aren't. The ancient soil carbon starts leaving. It doesn't come back.

A 3D scientific diagram from the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at Northern Arizona University illustrating how shrinking fire intervals affect forest carbon storage. Four stages are shown across a timeline moving toward the present. In earlier stages with 100-year fire intervals, forests have time to reabsorb carbon between burns, shown by green carbon cubes cycling back into the trees. As fire intervals shorten to 60 years or less at the present end of the diagram, less carbon is reabsorbed and more is permanently lost to the atmosphere. A layer labeled "Legacy C" runs beneath each stage, representing ancient stored carbon that is increasingly exposed and released as fires become more frequent.

Indigenous Peoples managed boreal landscapes with controlled cultural burning for thousands of years - reducing fuel loads, maintaining ecosystem health, preventing the kind of catastrophic fire accumulation we are now watching play out.

Two people conduct a controlled cultural burn in a boreal landscape. One person stands watching a line of low flames moving across dry grass near a stand of bare aspen trees, while another directs the fire using a burning implement. Smoke rises in the background. Photo by Joshua Neufeld/Gathering Voices.