Post-Fire Wildlife Recovery · 2010-05-25 · Los Padres National Forest management focuses on:...

Post-Fire Wildlife Recovery

Los Padres National Forest

The mission on the USDA Forest Service :The mission on the USDA Forest Service :

is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the NationNation’’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations.present and future generations.

Los Padres National Forest management focuses on:Los Padres National Forest management focuses on:

••Protecting and enhancing watershedsProtecting and enhancing watersheds••Providing worldProviding world--class recreationclass recreation••Providing worldProviding world--class wilderness opportunities.class wilderness opportunities.••Promoting use of the forest as a Promoting use of the forest as a ““living laboratoryliving laboratory”” for for ecological diversity and scientific research.ecological diversity and scientific research.

Wheeler 2 Fire in 1985Wheeler 2 Fire in 1985

Fires in Surrounding Watersheds Since 1990Fires in Surrounding Watersheds Since 1990

RUN!

Condor GPS tracksCondor GPS tracks

Things to be Concerned About:

• Follow MIST guidelines – “Light hand on the land.”• Dozer lines in riparian zones.• Retardant in riparian zones (not less than 300’).• Water drafting in steelhead trout habitat.• Backfiring through riparian areas.• Clearing woody debris out of streams.• Heavy equipment or petroleum in water.• Dipping or drafting in red-legged frog or sea water.• Use of truck washing stations.

Dipping from Rivers

Drafting from a Pool –make sure to have absorbant cloth

and a berm.

After the Fire• The Suppression Rehab. Team rehabilitates the

dozer lines, handlines, basecamp, helispots and other areas impacted from fire suppression tactics.

• The Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation (BAER) team assesses and plans the rehab. of areas damaged from fire that will likely experience excessive erosion, flooding and debris flows.

R5 BIOLOGIST MEETING25 May 2010

BAER• Wildfire over 300 acres.

• Interdisciplinary Team

• 7 days after Containment

• 2500-8

Approx. 164 acres of moderate to high severity.Approx. 164 acres of moderate to high severity.

Major Structures

Major Structures

• Debris Basins• Flood Flow

Deflectors

Stanislaus Complex Fire, Stanislaus Complex Fire, Stanislaus N.F.Stanislaus N.F.

Unintended ConsequencesUnintended Consequences

Questions?Questions?