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G eographer
SPRING 2019 VOLUME 2 ISSUE 1
Humboldt Geography students and faculty take a breather during a hike at Lassen.
HSU Geographers Explore Impacts of Carr Fire, Continue to Lassen On a weekend in late September 2018, more than twenty Humboldt State Geography students, led by professors Matthew Derrick and Rosemary Sherriff, hopped in vans for a three-day field study that included an investigation into the impacts of the recent Carr Fire and an exploration natural beauty of Lassen Volcanic National Park. The Carr Fire, reported as one of the most destructive fires in California’s history, started on July 23, 2018, near Whiskeytown off Highway 299. Before being fully contained in late August, the conflagration spread nearly 230,000 acres across Trinity and Shasta counties, destroying more than 1,000 residences—mainly in and around west Redding—and claiming the lives of three firefighters. On the first day of the field study, the Humboldt geographers met with Tom Garcia, a firefighter at the National Park Service, and Eric Knapp, a research ecologist with the US Forest Service. Starting at the Whiskeytown
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