Marble Cone Fire
Marble-Cone Fire | |
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Date(s) | August, 1977 (PDT) |
Location | Big Sur, California |
Statistics | |
Burned area | ~178,000 acres |
Land use | Wildlands |
Impacts | |
Deaths | 0 |
The Marble-Cone Fire was a wildland fire which burned for three weeks in August, 1977 in the Big Sur, California high country. By the time it was extinguished, it had burned about 178,000 acres (720 km2) in the Santa Lucia Mountains, known as the Ventana Wilderness,[1] making it the largest wildfire in recorded California history at that time.[citation needed] The fire burned 90% of the vegetation cover in the upper Big Sur River watershed. This posed the threat of serious flooding in the Big Sur River Valley, where a much smaller August 1972 fire had led to disastrous flooding later that year. Moderate rains resulted in no major flooding problems.[2]
References
- ^ "Sequential Changes in Bed Habitat Conditions in the Upper Carmel River Following the Marble-Cone Fire of August, 1977", California Digital Library
- ^ Lussier, Tommie Kay, Big Sur: A Complete History and Guide, ISBN 0-935766-27-8
External links
- "Changes in Distribution of Owl Species Subsequent to Habitat Alteration by Fire", Bruce Elliot, California Department of Fish and Game Western Birds 16:25-28, 1985
- "Burn Species", David Rogers, Double Cone Quarterly, Spring 2000
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