Resource Issue: Fire
See a map of burn severity in the Dragon Bravo and White Sage fires, which burned more than 200,000 acres on the north rim of the Grand Canyon in 2025.
See a map of the areas the Dragon Bravo and White Sage fires burned on the north rim of the Grand Canyon in the summer of 2025, destroying the lodge and numerous other park buildings.
This research article aims to “model and map fire connectivity on a cheatgrass-invaded landscape, as well as the centrality of large cheatgrass patches, in order to inform a landscape fuel treatment (i.e., a network of greenstrips); and to evaluate the modeled greenstrip network based on changes to cheatgrass patch centrality.” Download the article ›