{"pk":47441,"title":"Wilderness Fire: The Beauty of Fire-Prone Landscapes","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, a vast 1.3-million-acre expanse in western Montana and eastern Idaho, is a landscape deeply intertwined with fire. Today, this rugged wilderness area has one of the most active fire regimes in the contiguous US, and continues to be a “natural laboratory” for us to understand how fire interacts with forests, especially in a time of changing climate. I have spent two summers in the heart of the Selway-Bitterroot as part of research teams from the University of Montana, gathering data from and creating images of this unique area. These images reveal a landscape where fire is an agent of destruction but also one of stability and rejuvenation—a balancing force that creates space for new growth and adaptation.","language":"eng","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"The Photographer’s Frame","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9kz4c4dh","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Mark","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kreider","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Montana","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-05-15T09:00:00+02:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/psf/article/47441/galley/35778/download/"}]}