- Author: Kara Manke
Published on: August 10, 2021
Reposted from Berkeley News
For nearly half a century, lightning-sparked blazes in Yosemite's Illilouette Creek Basin have rippled across the landscape — closely monitored, but largely unchecked. Their flames might explode into plumes of heat that burn whole hillsides at once, or sit smoldering in the underbrush for months.
The result is approximately 60 square miles of forest that look remarkably different from other parts of the Sierra Nevada: Instead of dense, wall-to-wall tree cover — the outcome of more than a century of fire suppression — the landscape is broken up by patches...
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UCANR: Protecting California's natural resources
Tags: Brandon Collins (5), forest resilience (4), Illilouette Creek (2), managed wildfire (1), Scott Stephens (21), water yield (2), Yosemite National Park (4)
Focus Area Tags: Environment
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