They say: "This is not a CAL FIRE incident."
Yosemite NP says as of today:
"Meadow (37 42.738 x 119 30.541 – Mariposa Co., 7,870’, August 16) A fire, that may be a spot fire, from the Meadow lightning-caused fire, was discovered at approximately 12:30 PM, Sunday September 7. The fire is approximately 2,582 acres. It is burning within the Little Yosemite Valley (LYV) on both sides of the Merced River. All trails in the area are closed. Approximately 100 hikers and backpackers were evacuated from the fire area in LYV. The fire is burning in Yosemite Wilderness. The High Sierra Camps were seasonally closed today."
Scott Stephens says it is growing fast. We will keep our eyes on it.
- Author: Shane Feirer
Sean has a double major B.A. in Spanish and Geography from CSU Sacramento and a M.A. in Geography from UC Davis. The core emphasis of his master's thesis was mapping spatial variability of water quality across California's rangeland watersheds. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Geography at UC Davis, completing a dissertation interested in: “Machine learning and data fusion methods for optimizing remote sensing and GIS based land cover classifications.”
Prior to joining ANR, Hogan was a teacher assistant and a graduate student researcher at UC Davis. Most recently he was a member of the UCD Center for Spatial Technology and Remote Sensing where he provided GIS and remote sensing support for interests in precision agriculture, monitoring natural resources and calibration of NASA's airborne imagers. Prior to this he was a member of the UCD Rangeland Watershed Laboratory, where he provided GIS support for rangeland management and water quality research. GIS and remote sensing however were not Hogan's first career specialties. Prior to perusing a path in higher education he was a deputy sheriff in the County of Sacramento (1998-2004), and before that grew up on a small ranch in the rural foothills of California, where he trained horses and helped his father with his work as a professional logger.
Here are the tag clouds from this year's GIS class: the why, how and what of our upcoming semester's projects. Word clouds from Wordle.
The Why: what are the key problems class members want to focus on...
The How: possible methods we will use...
The What: some of the datasets that might be used...
This one from Tim Hanson. The caption from the photos (286747. 286748, 286749, 286750) reads:
"Butte County. Panorama looking SW, S. SE and E from Neal Road. Note Juniperus californica in ravine. Woodland grass type of blue oak and digger pines with occasional Ceanothus cuneatus, Arctostaphylos manzanita and Rhus diversiloba."
There is still California juniper in the ravine, including far right of the new photo, which is uncommon in Butte County. The rare Monardella venosa grows in patches of dense clay soil in the flats of the canyon. The Wieslander picture was taken on 6/24/1933 and his picture was taken on 5/3/2011.
