As increasingly intense wildfires climb to higher elevations across the U.S. West, the burn scars they leave behind are shifting the way snow is melting, a new study has found. The accumulation of snowpack, which appears in rivers as runoff in the spring, is an important source of water in the drought-stricken region. For that reason, the changes to the landscape that are being wrought by wildfires are complicating water availability assessments, according to the study, published in Water Resources Research. A Colorado-based research team decided to examine such shifts by looking at the aftermath of the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire — the state's largest fire on record, which burned for
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