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Southern California Wildfires

October 26th, 2007 · No Comments

I’m sure that some of you have been thinking about how the SoCal fires have affected my field work. I have several sites in San Diego County- most of which are either threatened or already burned. Here is the map. The areas marker by “red plus signs” are locations where I trapped last summer.

Bummer!!! 1st the drought causing extremely low population numbers- now fire…

As you can see- there are 2 places- San Felipe Valley and Warners Pass just to the east of current fires. It’s concerning to know that the wind has shifted directions and is now driving the fire east! I bet thought that thee places will not burn- as it is pretty “deserty” and almost completely lacks tall trees and dense vegetation.. We’ll see…

Echo Valley was my best place- and it, like many others is dry and has dense vegetation. Let’s keep out fingers crossed for this one!

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