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Images of the Noonmark Fire site 20 years later

SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh students visited the site of the 1999 Noonmark fire on Bear Den Mountain near the Ausable Club on September 16. This caterpillar was spotted during the trip. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh students visited the site of the 1999 Noonmark fire on Bear Den Mountain near the Ausable Club on September 16. This caterpillar was spotted during the trip. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
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SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh students visited the site of the 1999 Noonmark fire on Bear Den Mountain near the Ausable Club on September 16. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh students visited the site of the 1999 Noonmark fire on Bear Den Mountain near the Ausable Club on September 16. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh students visited the site of the 1999 Noonmark fire on Bear Den Mountain near the Ausable Club on September 16. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh students visited the site of the 1999 Noonmark fire on Bear Den Mountain near the Ausable Club on September 16. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh students visited the site of the 1999 Noonmark fire on Bear Den Mountain near the Ausable Club on September 16. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh students visited the site of the 1999 Noonmark fire on Bear Den Mountain near the Ausable Club on September 16. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch
SUNY Plattsburgh Professor Mark Lesser and his students visited the 1999 Noonmark Fire site in September. Photo by Mike Lynch

Twenty years ago, the Noonmark Fire burned about 90 acres on a site that can be found off the Bear Den Trail. In mid-September, Explorer writer Tim Rowland and I visited the site with  SUNY Plattsburgh professor Mark Lesser and his students for a piece that appeared in the November-December issue of the Explorer. You can read the piece here and see a photo gallery from our trip above. In the video below, Lesser talks about the ecological impacts of the fire.

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