The impact of forest fire on permafrost slopes Klondike area, Yukon Territory

• Main Author: Coates, James
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2008
• Subjects: Biology, Ecology.; Physical Geography.; Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife.; Yukon; Steele; Dawson City; Goldfields; Dawson; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-18782; http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/27582

Numerous forest fires occurred during the summer of 2004 in the Klondike Goldfields region of the Yukon Territory, an area of extensive discontinuous permafrost. More than 35 shallow detachment failure landslides developed in subsequent weeks in Steele Creek, a small drainage basin located about 60...