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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.<br><br>
Pieces<br><br>
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At 10:47 AM 11/17/07, V Hurst wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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? <br>
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thanks<br>
vera<br><br>
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