Rim Fire Kills Everything in 60 Square Miles of 400 Square Mile Fire
A soils scientist from the Burned Area Emergency Respone Team assess a burn area in The Rim fire near Yosemite National Park, California |
Some areas of the Stanislaus National Forest ravaged by the Rim Fire had not burned in 100 years. Most of the land that now resembles a moonscape burned on Aug. 21 and Aug. 22.
A deer returns to its home range in the Rim Fire area near Yosemite National Park, Calif. |
Short-term impacts in the park could include the displacement of a unique and threatened subspecies of great gray owls that makes home in treetops in the fire’s range.
The Rim Fire started Aug. 17, when a hunter’s fire spread, and continues to burn. It is named for a ridge near the location where the fire started — The Rim of the World, an overlook above a gorge carved by the Tuolumne River.
Severe soil damage occurred on just 7 percent of the land inside the fire’s footprint, said officials with the federal Burned Area Environmental Response team. Fire can destroy soil and make it susceptible to erosion by either burning the fine roots and other organic matter that holds it together, or by burning chaparral that releases oils that create an impervious barrier preventing rainwater from being absorbed. (MSN News, AP Photo: U.S. Forest Service, Brad Rust, AP Photo: U.S. Forest Service, Louis Haynes)
Source: http://cenvironment.blogspot.com/2013/09/rim-fire-totally-kills-everything-in-60.html
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it is the chemical drenched landscape that has made these fires so hot and burn so intensely. They are just making sure that no one can run into the woods and not be found. No one will be able to hunt their own food, the animals are dead. They have every angle covered, it is going to be death or fema camp soon. It is the change you were apparently wanting – according to Obama. Just waiting for the earthquake, the tsunami, the nuclear bombs, the dirty bombs, the collapse of the Edgar J Hooover dam, the poisoned flammable water from fracking. Yes folks, our lives will never be the same again soon. We have an animal in the WH savaging everything that stands for human decency. Get rid of him, surely someone, anyone, even someone pathetic, will anyone stand up before the country is ruined? God bless America, you sure are gonna need it soon. I hope it is not too late.