Tag: prescribed burns

February 11, 2020

Prescribed fires burn turtles but may help egg-laying females

Prescribed fires may kill individual box turtles, but the aftermath produces favorable plots for egg-laying females. “The fire does create this challenging habitat around them by altering the availability of...

June 7, 2017

A ‘burning issue’: Spotted owls use fire mosaic

Before mega-fires like the 2013 Rim Fire burned large swaths of the landscape, Yosemite National Park had been setting smaller prescribed fires to regenerate the forest. In a study published...

October 14, 2016

Flying squirrels to flee the stand, but not the forest

If you look into the tree canopies of the Stanislaus-Tuolumne Experimental Forest in California, you might spot a small northern flying squirrel catching air with its pseudo wings as it...

August 11, 2016

Megafires drive out spotted owls

After the King Fire torched nearly 100,000 acres of the Eldorado National Forest in 2014, California spotted owls (Strix occidentalis occidentalis) abandoned the charred remains of their homes, Capital Public...