Name: Video: Ten years later: Lessons from the Pagami Creek Fire
Description: The Pagami Creek Fire in 2011 blew up into Minnesota’s biggest wildfire in over a century, burning more than 90,000 acres in the Superior National Forest. Ten years later, the forest has been reborn and lessons learned from Pagami now shape how rangers and firefighters respond to wilderness wildfires.

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The Pagami Creek Fire in 2011 blew up into Minnesota’s biggest wildfire in over a century, burning more than 90,000 acres in the Superior National Forest. Ten years later, the forest has been reborn and lessons learned from Pagami now shape how rangers and firefighters respond to wilderness wildfires. 

Ten years later: Lessons from the Pagami Creek Fire

Derek Montgomery for MPR News

A section of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness burned

A section of the BWCA burned during the Pagami Creek Fire

The Pagami Creek Fire continues to burn across the BWCA.

The Pagami Creek Fire continues to burn across the BWCA

A section of the BWCA that burned during the Pagami Creek Fire 

A regenerating forest begins to overtake the blackened trunk of a tree 

Jack pine seedlings begin to form on a young jack pine 

A young boreal forest with trees in the BWCA

A burned trunk from the 2011 Pagami Creek Fire 

A burned pine cone from the 2011 Pagami Creek Fire

A snag looms over jack pines and red pines.

Snags from the Pagami Creek Fire dot the landscape around Isabella Lake 

Ten years later: Lessons from the Pagami Creek Fire

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