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Kansas Prairie Fires

Prairies can’t exist without fire, so burning is essential to preserving the last remaining tallgrass prairie in North America.


NASA images courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published April 9, 2014
Data acquired March 29, 2014

Source:
Aqua > MODIS
Topic:
Land Surface > Land Use/Land Cover > Land Management
Collection:
MODIS Rapid Response