Field trip Caples vs Caldor fire assessing impact levels

Field trip Caples vs Caldor fire assessing impact levels

Team members (Durrell Kapan, Jack Dumbacher, Pat Manley, and Rebecca Wilcox) toured the Caples Creek Ecological Restoration Project watershed to look at the different disturbance levels experienced with the 2019 Caples burn vs the 2021 Caldor wildfire.

Sun hits the tops of trees burned in the high-severity Caldor wildfire near Martin Meadow in the Caples Creek Restoration Project study area in June of 2023. Photo (c) 2023 Durrell D. Kapan, California Academy of Sciences.