Results of large wetland burn

The day after the large Fish & Wildlife Service burn at Pleasant Valley Conservancy, I spent a couple of hours touring the burn site with our Kawasaki Mule and marking areas that had not burned. The map here shows the results. (A higher resolution PDF version can be downloaded via the Pleasant Valley Conservancy web site.)

The sedge meadows, cattail patches, and grassy areas burned extremely well. Vegetation in areas of standing water, as well as marsh marigold areas (which are also in standing water) did not burn.

Although I have not had the time yet to determine the exact area burned, I would estimate from the above map that between 60 and 70% of the wetland burned. This is considerably better than the previous burn, done in 2005. See this link for details of the 2005 burn.

We are anticipating dramatic vegetation responses for this burn, as happened after the 2005.burn.