{"id":2414,"date":"2022-08-22T16:25:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2022-08-22T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T23:25:08","slug":"a-year-after-the-caldor-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/08\/22\/a-year-after-the-caldor-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year After the Caldor Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>SIERRA NEVADA UPDATES<\/pre>\n<p>(PLACERVILLE, CALIFORNIA) Aug 22, 2022 \u2014 One year ago, the world watched as the Caldor Fire ignited in the Sierra Nevada foothills and burned up and over the rocky crest of the mountains to the southern shores of Lake Tahoe\u2014impacting communities and landscapes along its path.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, some lessons are clear. What we do before wildfires ignite can make all the difference on the ground. Landscape-level fuel reduction done before the Caldor Fire played a critical role in protecting natural areas like the Caples Creek watershed while defensible space in the wildland urban interface was pivotal for mountain communities like Sly Park, Pollock Pines &amp; South Lake Tahoe.<\/p>\n<p>Equally clear is the toll taken by the Caldor Fire, just one of several California megafires that burned during the historic 2021 fire season. Treasured Sierra Nevada landscapes, hundreds of homes, including the town of Grizzly Flats, and important economic drivers like the Sierra at Tahoe Resort suffered heavy damage.<\/p>\n<p>More thorough assessments of the fire\u2019s many other impacts, whether to the state\u2019s carbon stores, water quality in our rivers, or regional biodiversity, will take time. Even so, a year after the Caldor Fire it serves as a stark reminder of both what\u2019s at stake in California\u2019s climate and wildfire crisis, and some of the steps we can take to protect the many shared riches of the Sierra Nevada.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Year After the Caldor Fire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oW5Pqcb85aQ\" width=\"1903\" height=\"767\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Drone imagery of the burn area before and one year after the Caldor Fire<\/h2>\n<p>The SNC\u2019s work takes us, and our drone, to a lot of special mountain places. We recently returned to an iconic stretch of California\u2019s Highway 50 to see how the post-burn landscape compared to images taken a few years prior.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74881 lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/sierranevada.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2022\/08\/CaldorFireBeforeAfter-horsetailFalls.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 829px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sierranevada.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2022\/08\/CaldorFireBeforeAfter-horsetailFalls.jpg 829w, https:\/\/sierranevada.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2022\/08\/CaldorFireBeforeAfter-horsetailFalls-480x686.jpg 480w\" alt=\"Looking from above out across a granite mountain side with a waterfall in the background. In the top image the mountain is covered with green trees. In the bottom, the mountain side is brown and peppered with dead trees.\" width=\"829\" height=\"1184\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/sierranevada.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2022\/08\/CaldorFireBeforeAfter-horsetailFalls.jpg 829w, https:\/\/sierranevada.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2022\/08\/CaldorFireBeforeAfter-horsetailFalls-480x686.jpg 480w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sierranevada.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2022\/08\/CaldorFireBeforeAfter-horsetailFalls.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 829px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption>The landscape before and after the Caldor Fire near Pyramid Creek and Horsetail Falls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74882 lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/sierranevada.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2022\/08\/CaldorFireBeforeAfter-twinBridges.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 829px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sierranevada.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2022\/08\/CaldorFireBeforeAfter-twinBridges.jpg 829w, https:\/\/sierranevada.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2022\/08\/CaldorFireBeforeAfter-twinBridges-480x540.jpg 480w\" alt=\"Looking out and down across a mountainside and highway. In the top image, the landscape is covered with green trees. In the bottom, there are far fewer trees and many of the ones left are brown.\" width=\"829\" height=\"933\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/sierranevada.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2022\/08\/CaldorFireBeforeAfter-twinBridges.jpg 829w, https:\/\/sierranevada.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2022\/08\/CaldorFireBeforeAfter-twinBridges-480x540.jpg 480w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sierranevada.ca.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/326\/2022\/08\/CaldorFireBeforeAfter-twinBridges.jpg\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 829px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption>The landscape before and after the Caldor Fire around highway 50 near Twin Bridges.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year later, some lessons are clear. What we do before wildfires ignite can make all the difference on the ground. Landscape-level fuel reduction done before the Caldor Fire played a critical role in protecting natural areas like the Caples Creek watershed while defensible space in the wildland urban interface was pivotal for mountain communities like Sly Park, Pollock Pines &#038; South Lake Tahoe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/2416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}