PHOTOS: Mulching after mountain fire
September 26, 2013 - 8:41 am
Matthew Gill, squad leader of Black Mountain Hotshots, demonstrates how he surveys forest floor samples for quality assurance at a unit of burned forest on the edge of the Rainbow Subdivision on Mount Charleston near Las Vegas Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. The straw, which was recently dropped by helicopter, will help to retain moisture allowing for regrowth. Nine sites on Mount Charleston damaged in the Carpenter 1 Fire are slated for mulching. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Staw blows in the wind and covers the ground near a charred White Fir tree in a unit of burned forest edging the Rainbow Subdivision on Mount Charleston near Las Vegas Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. The straw, which was recently dropped by helicopter, will help to retain moisture allowing for regrowth. (Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Helimulching, using straw dropped by helicopter, is designed to protect the ground and retain moisture in burned areas to help vegetation recover after a forest fire. There are nine sites on Mount Charleston damaged in the Carpenter 1 Fire that are slated for mulching.
