The largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park remained closed Saturday, a day after hundreds of people were ordered to evacuate as a wildfire burning through dense forest became the latest to threaten the world's largest trees. A team was being sent to the Mariposa Grove to w...
Warming and earlier spring increase western US forest wildfire activity. Science 313: 940–943. Article CAS Google Scholar Whitlock, C., and S.H. Millspaugh. 1996. Testing the assumptions of fire-history studies: an examination of modern charcoal accumulation in Yellowstone National Park, USA....
Dispersed camped here on 5-23-2022 and the area was significantly impacted by the French Wildfire. Most if not all trees are severely burned and unsafe to camp around. The east side of the site is completely burned down. Ash covers the ground in about 6 inches deep throughout the forest....
We evaluated relative carbon stock stabilities in relation to wildfire risk by overlaying our carbon density map with a FRID map [66]. We calculated the amount of carbon within each forest type by FRID level, using the 2012 Yosemite FRID map (Kent van Wagtendonk, Yosemite Fire GIS specialist...