Clients: Northern California Resource Center, Shasta-Trinity National Forest
SBS botanists surveyed approximately 6,000 acres within the footprint of the 2020 August Fire Complex, in Trinity County, California. As one of California’s largest wildfires, the August Fire Complex included large areas of high intensity burn. The SBS crew surveyed extensive rare serpentine habitat with a unique flora, and located endemic species. SBS managers designed multiple survey protocols to complete large survey areas in a timely manner, including aerial photo interpretation, intuitive controlled meander and complete surveys. The SBS team located 49 sites of special status plants including a new population of the Trinity Mountain Monkeyflower (Erythranthe trinitiensis). This species was not described until 2013, and is a very narrow endemic of the Trinity Alps.
