Nevada forestry officials said Tuesday they’re concerned about the record-setting Joshua tree, as well as all local foliage, noting that the fire’s footprint appeared to be just six miles from site of the largest Joshua tree. She wasn’t sure what in southern Nevada was immediately at risk, and Bureau of Land Management officials did not respond to calls Tuesday. “The fire behavior is extreme and uncertain,” Hughson said.
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It will be nearly impossible for full forests to return from the scorched earth as they once were, and they are likely to be replaced by smaller shrubs and grasses, she said. “Recovery is really not a meaningful term here in the desert because of the global change going on,” Hughson said. Aided by brief rain, crews made the first real inroads against the York fire after sunset Monday - reporting 23% containment by Tuesday morning - but officials remain worried the fragile landscape might never fully bounce back. “A lot of pinyon, junipers gone forever, and a lot of the Joshua trees, likely.”Ĭalifornia’s largest wildfire of the year has grown to over 80,000 acres in the desert around the southern Nevada border, burning primarily in the national preserve, located in southeastern California.
“We’ve lost a huge area of native vegetation,” said Debra Hughson, deputy superintendent for the Mojave National Preserve. As firefighters battle a massive wildfire in the eastern Mojave Desert, national park officials and ecologists are preparing for habitat losses that are likely to alter the landscape forever.
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