Range Fires turn part of Snake River Plain into desert-

Sagebrush and grassland on the Big Desert of the Snake River Plain
Late June 1993. Idaho National Engineering Lab. INEL.
© Ralph Maughan.

Same general area is above. All vegetation gone and the soil reduced
to sand. Early September 2000. Idaho National Engineering Lab. INEL
© Ralph Maughan

The area burned three times between the the two photographs.