Wildfires like the Park Fire are creating new challenges for the already threatened salmon populations in local creeks and rivers. In the Butte, Mill and Deer Creek the Chinook salmon have been suffering, and especially with the Park Fire activities recently, it has made things a lot worse. “And it’s just getting more and more difficult for these fish to survive in the summer,” Allen Harthorn, Executive Director of Friends of Butte Creek, said. Harthorn said persistent heat waves and impacts from large wildfires, especially the Park Fire, are making it difficult for Chinook salmon to survive.

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