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A year after the 2006 Tripod Complex Fire, one of the largest wildfires in Washington.
This picture was taken in 2007, one year after the 2006 Tripod Complex Fire in northern Washington state. The wildfires were initiated by two lightning strikes and spread over 175,000 acres of mixed conifer forest in the Okanogan National Forest. The Tripod Complex was one of the largest wildfires in Washington in the past half-century, costing more than $82 million in resources to fight. The fire threatened the nearby towns of Winthrop, Conconully and Loomis, but did not encroach.
Credit: Joanne Ho, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington
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