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Scrub Burn -- August 13, 1999

The Scrub is a "Fire Dependent" ecosystem. For example: without fire the bushes grow and shade the ground. This prevents food that the Gopher Tortoise depends on from growing. Without Gopher Tortoises and their burrows, animals have no really cool place to hide from the sun and fire. Scrub brush would grow into trees. Commensal (burrow dependent) species would lose their home. We would lose an environment, and its flora and fauna, that have been around since the last Ice Age, and before.

The photos in this set were taken from the same general area, in the same general direction.
1. -- From the Canal Trail, near the Blue Trail, looking south.
2. -- From the Lime Trail, at the Blue Trail, looking east & southeast.
3. -- From the Yellow Trail, at the White Trail, looking north.
First, you see the area as we have known it - an overgrown scrub, unburned for decades. Second, the area has been prepared for the burn by cutting trees and shrubs from the edges to prevent an intense fire from jumping across the fire lines. Third is the area as it looked the day after the burn.
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August 14, 1999
January 15, 2000
May 14, 2001

WOW! Click here for a 360 degree view of the burn
from near location 1 above.
When loaded (533K), put your cursor on the picture,
hold down the mouse button, them move it slightly. Watch.
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Provided by Raymond Mojica of the EELs Program.

Flames in the Scrub and the crew that controlled them.

Crew for the
controlled burn - 8/13/99.
Starting a backfire to
help control Burn.
Fire truck at
the controlled burn.

These photos were taken near the intersection of the Yellow and White Trails (site #3 above).
This is the SouthEast corner of the 10 acre burn.

Life in the Scrub after the burn.

Looking northeast from the Lime and Blue Trails after the burn. (#2 - above) Just 18 hours after the burn, a "threatened species list" Gopher Tortoise has cleaned out her/his burrow and taken a look around.

Surviving fire and a fire vehicle wheels, ants clean out their hole, showing the color of the soil under the surface. One of our "endangered species list" Scrub Lizzards explores his/her new surroundings.

27 hours after the fire a brisk breeze fans an ember into flame. Is was quickly extinguished. An armadillo found foraging for food two weeks after the burn.

New York Times - June 30, 2002 - Article on prescribed fire after the huge fires in Colorado, Arizona and elsewhere.

Idea of Fighting Fire With Fire Wins Converts
By TIMOTHY EGAN
"But this week, the biggest wildfire in Colorado history, the Hayman fire, dropped dead in its tracks when it met the boundary of the fire set deliberately by the Forest Service last year.
"That would scare anyone to death when the government says, `I'm here to burn down the forest, trust me,' " said Bob Foster, who owns the Lost Valley Guest Ranch near here, surrounded by Pike National Forest. "I have a little different take on it now," Mr. Foster said, crediting the controlled burn of last year with helping to save his ranch.
"Convincing people in the West that the only way to save the forest around them is to let the government burn it is perhaps the biggest challenge facing the Forest Service as it tries to reverse a century-old policy of fighting every fire."

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The Scrub is a "Fire Dependent" ecosystem. For example: without fire the bushes grow and shade the ground. This prevents food that the Gopher Tortoise depends on from growing. Without Gopher Tortoises and their burrows, animals have no really cool place to hide from the sun and fire. Scrub brush would grow into trees. Commensal (burrow dependent) species would lose their home. We would lose an environment, and its flora and fauna, that have been around since the last Ice Age, and before.
The photos in this set were taken from the same general area, in the same general direction. 1. -- From the Canal Trail, near the Blue Trail, looking south. 2. -- From the Lime Trail, at the Blue Trail, looking east & southeast. 3. -- From the Yellow Trail, at the White Trail, looking north. First, you see the area as we have known it - an overgrown scrub, unburned for decades. Second, the area has been prepared for the burn by cutting trees and shrubs from the edges to prevent an intense fire from jumping across the fire lines. Third is the area as it looked the day after the burn. Click on a picture to see an enlargement. Use the BACK button on your Browser to return here.
1.
2.
3.
3.	August 14, 1999	January 15, 2000	May 14, 2001
WOW! Click here for a 360 degree view of the burn from near location 1 above. When loaded (533K), put your cursor on the picture, hold down the mouse button, them move it slightly. Watch. Use the BACK button of your Browser to return. Provided by Raymond Mojica of the EELs Program.

Flames in the Scrub and the crew that controlled them.
Crew for the controlled burn - 8/13/99.	Starting a backfire to help control Burn.	Fire truck at the controlled burn.

These photos were taken near the intersection of the Yellow and White Trails (site #3 above). This is the SouthEast corner of the 10 acre burn.

Life in the Scrub after the burn.
	Looking northeast from the Lime and Blue Trails after the burn. (#2 - above)	Just 18 hours after the burn, a "threatened species list" Gopher Tortoise has cleaned out her/his burrow and taken a look around.
	Surviving fire and a fire vehicle wheels, ants clean out their hole, showing the color of the soil under the surface.	One of our "endangered species list" Scrub Lizzards explores his/her new surroundings.
	27 hours after the fire a brisk breeze fans an ember into flame. Is was quickly extinguished.	An armadillo found foraging for food two weeks after the burn.

Scrub Burn -- August 13, 1999

Flames in the Scrub and the crew that controlled them.

Life in the Scrub after the burn.

New York Times - June 30, 2002 - Article on prescribed fire after the huge fires in Colorado, Arizona and elsewhere.

Idea of Fighting Fire With Fire Wins Converts By TIMOTHY EGAN

Idea of Fighting Fire With Fire Wins Converts
By TIMOTHY EGAN