[pct-l] burned areas

[Phil Baily]

My experience has been that there is no significant change in 
available water, there is less cover from the sun, and there are dead 
black bare trees and shrubs. In freshly burned areas there will be 
black ash that may blow up, but you can count on at least getting 
your feet/shoes coated with ash. There also may be more blowdowns 
than usual because dead roots don't hold very well. That also depends 
upon wind strengths this winter. Burns more than 2 or 3 years old 
usually have no ash, significant low height green recovery growth and 
black dead tree trunks. At this point, the only planning change I 
would recommend is to avoid camping in freshly burned areas.  Trails 
may be rerouted but they seem to not be rerouted in most cases.

Pieces


At 10:47 AM 11/17/07, V Hurst wrote:
>Ok so I'm such a newbie that I guess I need to ask this...the burned 
>areas mean that there will be less water? or less cover during the 
>day or just black burned areas? Sorry may be a silly question but 
>thats how I learn.. :)What does this do as far as planning goes? 
>Will the trail be rerouted to let it recover?
>
>thanks
>vera
>
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