USGS scientists install a postfire monitoring station in the Elk Fire burn area near Dayton, Wyoming.

USGS scientists install a postfire monitoring station in the Elk Fire burn area near Dayton, Wyoming. Installed less than a year after the wildfire, the station records hydrologic responses during rainfall on the burned landscape. Located above a channel that was assessed to have a very high likelihood of debris flows, it collects data on soil properties and rainfall.