UCSB study shows impacts of wildfires and droughts on stream communities
A team of researchers at UC Santa Barbara and the National Forest Service have spent the past five years researching the impacts of wildfires and droughts on stream communities and the wildlife that live in these riparian habitats. The studies were launched in the wake of the Zaca and Jesusita fires of 2007 and 2009, when the team hoped to document the effects of wildfires on the plant and animal life that rely on the waterways in the burn areas 10 years later.