Blog: Journey to the Bottom of the Rim Fire
From the California WaterBlog in a post by Carson Jeffres, Ryan Peek and Molly Ogaz:
“Walking into a landscape after a forest fire is always a surreal feeling. It’s a funny mix of excitement and sadness seeing what fire can do to the forest you once knew.
“What’s always intriguing is the hodgepodge pattern of wildfire. Some places are burned to the point where there is pretty much nothing left except small stumps less than a foot tall. And, yet, just 50 meters away, the trees and brush are untouched by flame.
“This was a recurring theme as the eight of us with the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences hiked down to the confluence of the Tuolumne and Clavey Rivers on Sept. 18, just a month after the start of the huge Rim Fire – the largest wildfire to burn in the Sierra Nevada in more than a century of recordkeeping.”
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