Talk:2004 Alaska wildfires

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 * http://www.nifc.gov/fire_info/lg_fires.htm
 * In 2004 Alaska fire season on 2011-05-25 07:41:57, 404 Not Found
 * In 2004 Alaska fire season on 2011-06-11 07:45:05, 404 Not Found

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Questions
Hey, Does anyone know where I could find some information on this topic?Amjirka (talk) 00:11, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Would anyone care if I put how some of the fires started?Amjirka (talk) 20:50, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Any suggestion about what else to add.Amjirka (talk) 02:10, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Does anyone know why this particular year had some many fires?Amjirka (talk) 02:12, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Does Alaska usually have fires or was this year just a special year?Amjirka (talk) 18:55, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Additions
I added how many fires were caused and how many were caused by what. I thought it would help give out more information.Amjirka (talk) 01:45, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

I was thinking about talking about Alaska's drought they were having. And also why the lightning strikes were so effective.Amjirka (talk) 19:15, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

I added to the article some updated citations to broken links. I also added to the article the section for Air Quality and its impacts. I think the article could definitely have an added section concerning the different named/known fires that occurred. With this we could add the amount of land each destroyed and other facts concerning each fire specifically: burn time, fire intensity, type of fire, ecological impacts to that area, etc.. Bhardy7 (talk) 17:15, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

I added again to this article, this time adding a scientific journal to citation 5 and adding another section on the Impacts to Climate Change & Landscape. Bhardy7 (talk) 07:16, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Causes of the fires
I added a heading and section on what caused most of the fires. There was little information in the article about how and why the fires were so extreme during the season. I feel as though this contribution gives a clearer explanation as to why there were so many fires and why they were so extreme in comparison to previous wild fire seasons in Alaska. Gdoman1 (talk) 03:55, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Causes of the fires feedback; Caroline Schroeder
Here, I think worked well. Sources were all used appropriately, and the diction and syntax are easy to understand but also academic. The only thing I would add is more information to elaborate on each sentence. For example, after reading your sources, I think you could add more information on the "parched month of August" that helped contribute to some of the fires, or add above about how some of the initial rain that accompanied lightning strikes may have hid some of the early fires.Careschroeder (talk) 03:47, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Notes to class participants
I do support the Education Program, but I'm not as hot on it as I once was. For one, there's little interest in class participants actually collaborating with the encyclopedia's regulars. We already have enough of a problem in general with people dumping content and running. For another, too many of these classes appear more interested in adding climate change POV to as many articles as possible than in adding perhaps more relevant content. As it pertains to this article, one of those perhaps more relevant items would be how close some of the fires came to populated areas on the outskirts of Fairbanks. We have the article Sockeye Fire because it happened within a populated area and resulted in significant structure damage, while no article on the 2015 fire season in general. From BLM data I observed, most of the action in 2015 occurred out in the middle of nowhere along both sides of the middle-to-lower Yukon River. That's not "striving for consistency". Anyway, the archive link for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner is located here. I can't think of any other local media outlets which would keep content from that long ago online still. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 01:13, 26 October 2016 (UTC)