NPS page on the fire
https://www.nps.gov/samo/learn/management/2018-woolsey-fire.htm

Story Map of the fire
https://nifc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=c2a85f0e9bb2446b986d3eaa80a8cfc6

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08/22/2019
“Fire Fact Forum: The Science of Fire”
https://messengermountainnews.com/news/fire-fact-forum-presents-the-science-of-fire/
http://lvhf.org/2019/08/fire-fact-forum-success/

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07/25/2019
LAT story about about the hardship of California Red-legged Frogs (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/67016-Rana-draytonii) before and after the fire.
[The fire] showed little mercy for the California red-legged frogs, savaging the reintroduction sites.
Mark Mendelsohn, a vegetation and wildlife biologist with the Park Service, had worked for Delaney on the reintroduction project before becoming the park’s botanist. He was the first to see the sites after the fire. “It was awful,” he said. “Just thinking about the frogs it looked awful. It was just ... a moonscape.”
The rains that followed the fire also wreaked destruction. Streams were filled with burned debris and ash, poisoning the water. Pools that had once been deep and clear filled with mud. At three of the four sites, Delaney said, “the habitat just got completely blown out.”
Then, days before Christmas last year, the U.S. government partially shut down and Park Service employees like Delaney were not allowed to work for 35 days.
Eventually, the team surveyed the Simi Hills source of all the frogs. They found 90 frogs. But when they returned for another visit weeks later, the frogs were noticeably skinnier. In February, with more rainfall coming, Delaney asked the Santa Barbara Zoo to shelter masses of frog eggs from the Simi Hills source. Those eggs ended up hatching tadpoles, which ended up being placed at two of the Santa Monica Mountains locations.
The frogs at the Simi Hills site have since recovered and are healthier and “breeding like crazy,” Delaney said. And at the fourth reintroduction site — the one not completely blown out — the frogs survived and have resumed breeding. “Those are my champion frogs,” Delaney said.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-07-24/woolsey-fire-red-legged-frog

Also on the California Red-legged Frog: https://www.fws.gov/cno/newsroom/highlights/2018/all_is_not_lost/

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07/13/2019
https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/post-woolsey-fire-malibu/

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05/08/2019
Fire and Rain Spell Trouble for Parks in the Santa Monica Mountains Area
The Woolsey Fire was bad enough, but the heavy rains that followed caused additional problems. Most notably: A huge crop of invasive weeds is turning into kindling.

http://www.malibutimes.com/news/article_d3d6e1a4-71ef-11e9-af8d-8bbd8099d947.html

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05/04/2019
KCLU interview with Dr. Seth Riley, a wildlife ecologist with the National Park Service, and branch chief of wildlife at the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
RILEY: Yeah, so one thing about the Woolsey Fire that was really impressive was just the sheer size of it - three times larger than the biggest fire to affect the Santa Monicas ever before. And it burned over 40% of the natural area within the Santa Monica Mountains. So it really - it really had a huge effect, and we're continuing to see those effects even six months later. For example, we've been following mountain lions in the park for 17 years or so, and we're continuing to see they - as soon as the fire occurred, we saw them stay largely out of that area. They would pass through it still once in a while, but, even six months later, they are mostly not using it.

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/04/720221926/how-last-years-massive-woolsey-fire-in-southern-california-impacted-wildlife

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02/28/2019
https://calmatters.org/environment/2019/02/californias-charred-hills-bloom-again-not-all-good/

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02/14/2019 - UCLA
After the Woolsey fire burned more than 150 square miles in November in the Santa Monica Mountains, two of the most important questions became how long it would take plants and animals to recover, and which ones will thrive or die out after the mountains’ worst fire ever recorded.
Now, a UCLA-led research project has begun a months-long study in more than 50 burn areas to closely monitor the recovery of native plants, invasive grasses, insects, slugs, snails and more. Those flora and fauna are important in their own right and also key food resources. With nearly 90 percent of the National Park Service’s land in the Santa Monica Mountains burned, a slow recovery of those smaller species could spell trouble for small mammals and reptiles that escaped the flames, said lead researcher Brad Shaffer, a distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a member of UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla-researchers-studying-how-the-woolsey-fire-affects-plant-and-animal-recovery

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12/20/2018
County Releases Damage Info—21,500 Trees on Public Land Lost to Fire
http://www.malibutimes.com/news/article_a9195ca8-03d1-11e9-a387-ffe163d4e62d.html

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12/04/2018
https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2018/12/plants-are-sprouting-burned-areas-santa-monica-mountains-thats-good-and-bad

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Also:

https://calmatters.org/category/environment/california-wildfires/

https://laist.com/2018/11/30/feeding_wildlife_after_woolsey_fire.php

People Who Aren't Biologists Are Fighting With Biologists About Feeding Wildlife In The Woolsey Fire Zone

https://laist.com/2018/12/06/santa_monica_mountains_recovery_after_woolsey_fire.php
How Will The Santa Monica Mountains Recover From The Woolsey Fire? We Asked A Scientist

Publicado el 26 de septiembre de 2019 a las 02:24 PM por andreacala