A Fire Ran Through It
Robin Wignall1
1U.S. Forest Service
The 2018 Gance Fire burned over a mile of riparian area supporting Gance creek an occupied LCT stream. As part of the Burned Area Emergency response (BAER) the Humboldt National Forest is pioneering the use of post assisted structures (PAS) and beaver dam analogs (BDA) as a stabilizing measure to protect streams of critical value from unacceptable post-fire degradation. Year one of remonitoring indicates that the Forest was successful, and may have inadvertently improved habitat conditions.