Burned Area Revegetation, Six Months Later

May 2013

Last May I used this photo of Fisher playing in a little seasonal spring to illustrate a post about the Bureau of Land Management's aerial seeding of a burned area near home.



The black ground is burned by the fire. The wood chips are mulch dropped by helicopter along with a mixture of grass seed.

September 2013

Here is Fisher again at the same spring (Camera Trap Spring). The mullein (upper left) would have arrived on its own, as did some of the other plants, but it looks like the grass mixture took hold, thanks to the late-summer rains.



We were spared the massive rains that hit northern Colorado, so there has not been an erosion problem, and now with any luck, there won't be.



Not shown: the Gambel oak is ankle to knee-high up there already. It needs no encouragement.