University of California-Berkeley: How Wildfire Restored a Yosemite Watershed
August 10, 2021
August 10, 2021
BERKELEY, California, Aug. 10 (TNSJou) -- The University of California Berkeley campus issued the following news release:
For nearly half a century, lightning-sparked blazes in Yosemite's Illilouette Creek Basin have rippled across the landscape -- closely monitored, but largely unchecked. Their flames might explode into plumes of heat that burn whole hillsides at once, or sit smoldering in the underbrush for months.
The result is approximately 60 square miles of f . . .
For nearly half a century, lightning-sparked blazes in Yosemite's Illilouette Creek Basin have rippled across the landscape -- closely monitored, but largely unchecked. Their flames might explode into plumes of heat that burn whole hillsides at once, or sit smoldering in the underbrush for months.
The result is approximately 60 square miles of f . . .