USGS Hazards Gateway Image Gallery: Wildfires

http://www.usgs.gov/images/logos/usgs_only.jpg USGS Hazards Gateway Image Gallery: Wildfires http://usgs.gov/hazards/ en-us OC_Web@usgs.gov (Office of Communications Web Group) 11/25/2009 12:39:55 PM http://www.usgs.gov/images/USGS.gif USGS http://www.usgs.gov/ E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema11.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema13.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema18.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema19.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema21.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema23.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema24.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema26.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema27.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema28.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema29.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema31.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema32.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema33.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema34.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema37.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema41.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema42.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema44.jpg E-mail Edward Edahl for more information about this picture: edward.edahl@dhs.gov http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/fema47.jpg The next photo on the camera at 11:12 p.m. PST on Oct. 23, 2007, shows a coyote walking out of the wash at night, a day and a half after the fire, heading back in the direction from which the coyote was running on the early morning of Oct. 22, 2007. Photo credit: USGS http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/2007_socal_image_1.jpg A coyote walking in dry creek bed of streamside scrub vegetation dominated by the native plant, mule fat (Baccharis salidifolia), about 20 days before the fire. In their wildlife research, USGS scientists position camera traps along trails and dry creek beds, places that are likely to be travel routes for carnivores. From this particular location in Borrego Wash, the researchers have obtained 32 photos of bobcats and 7 of coyotes since March 16, 2007. Photo credit: USGS. http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/2007_socal_image_2.jpg Movement triggers the camera, and moving vegetation can sometimes trigger a picture. At 09:45 a.m. PST on Oct. 21, 2007, the Santa Ana winds picked up and triggered a photo, followed by additional photos that morning of the windy conditions, including this one at 10:44 a.m. PST. Photo credit: USGS. http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/2007_socal_image_3.jpg At 4:50 a.m. PST on Oct. 22, 2007, a coyote runs into the wash, presumably fleeing from the fires. Photo credit: USGS. http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/2007_socal_image_4.jpg The camera continued to take one photo per minute for 10 minutes after the fire, until this one at 09:10 a.m. PST on Oct. 22, 2007, showing smoke, burnt and smoldering vegetation and windy conditions. The remnants of some field research equipment are lying melted under a nearby tree. Photo credit: USGS. http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/wildfires/ca/images/southern_ca_2007/large/2007_socal_image_5.jpg