Chaparral Wisdom
To celebrate the magic and beauty of Nature & the chaparral
Category: Forests
News Story Falsely Claims “Everything is Dead” One Year After Yosemite Fire
Year-old AP article that Misrepresented US Forest Service Scientists and the Impact of the 2013 Rim Fire is Released as “News” by CBS Affiliate SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The CBS affiliate in Sacramento, California, recycled a sensationalized 2013 Associated Press news article this week… Continue Reading “News Story Falsely Claims “Everything is Dead” One Year After Yosemite Fire”
11 Reasons Why Burned Forests are Beautiful
A severely burned forest is not a “destroyed” forest, but rather a habitat restored. That is not something you are likely to hear during or after the next large forest fire in the Sierra Nevada. It certainly wasn’t during the 2013 Rim Fire in… Continue Reading “11 Reasons Why Burned Forests are Beautiful”
The Myth of “Park-like” Forests in the Past
A research paper released yesterday finally did it for us. “The most profound implication of this study is that the need for forest ‘restoration’ designed to reduce variation in fire behavior may be much less extensive than implied by many current forest management plans… Continue Reading “The Myth of “Park-like” Forests in the Past”