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I'm Emily Schweng.

A willless and speechless human believed to have died and been supernaturally reanimated.

A person markedly strange in appearance or behavior.

A mixed drink made of several kinds of rum, liqueur, and fruit juice.

According to Miriam Webster, these are all ways to describe a zombie.

But maybe that definition should also include mention of wildfires.

The kind that smolder and creep along underground in

the boreal forests of the far north and subarctic.

You know, we think they're out and, you know, there's snow and it's cold all winter. And then in

the spring, when they start smoking up again, it's like they're back from the dead.

This past spring, Randy Jant and her colleagues published a paper in nature about wildfires that overwinter in the boreal forest.

Jant is a former wildland firefighter.

She's also a fire ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Fire Science Consortium.

If you were to ask me about that in the 90s or in the 80s

when I started working in Alaska in the fire community, I would have said, gosh, that is just a really

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