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Smoke From Cultural Burning and Managed Wildfire Cools River Temperatures

[sun in top left corner with three yellow arrows pointing down to forest floor, then back up toward sky]

[blue sky]

Stable Air Mass

[snow capped mountains]
[forest]
[smoke rising from fire along riverbank]

Prescribed Burn or Managed Wildfire

Localized Inversion

[river with forest on either side]

[smoke from fire toward bottom of image]

Salmon