Hot, dry weather over the northern Interior is keeping wildfire season alive longer than normal.
A wildfire north of Delta Junction has reignited. The more than 8,000-acre South Fork Salcha Fire was started by lightning earlier this month in a remote area about 70 miles southeast of Fairbanks.
Moose and other species have advanced north with warming temperatures. University of Alaska Fairbanks assistant professor of water and environmental research Ken Tape said movement of boreal species into far northern Alaska has corresponded over the last century with earlier snow-melt and river ice out.
The closures of the campgrounds, facing the threat of falling trees, likely will last through summer, the state parks division said.
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