Interacting Disturbances: Did Sudden Oak Death Mortality in Big Sur Worsen the Impacts of the 2008 Basin Complex Wildfire?
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Introduction In late June 2008, a large, dry lightning storm ignited thousands of fires across California. The largest of these fires became the Basin-Indians Complex Fire in Big Sur, along the State’s central coast. The fire burned over 240,000 acres (USDA Forest Service 2008) and required over a month of intense firefighting operations to contain the perimeter. Media reports and anecdotal accounts from firefighters linked the intensity of the fire and difficulty of firefighting operations to increased fuels from tree deaths caused by an emergent forest disease, sudden oak death (SOD).
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