The “Station Fire” that occurred in LA about a week ago burned about a quarter of LA mountains. Now that the firefighters have left biologists Adam Backlin and Liz Gallegos step in to study the area. The stood in streams to collect Santa Ana speckled dace fish to research to see how the wildfires are affecting the wildlife. Another biologist, Diana Papoulias, did autopsies on the fish and discovered that flame stoppers and debris in the water may have killed many of them. The article goes on to talk about causes of wildfires and how the number of them is increasing. Yet another biologist, Robert N. Fisher, evacuated a colony of mountain yellow-legged tadpoles, endangered in Southern California, from a part of the San Gabriel River before they are attacked by rock and debris. They were taken to the Fresno Chaffee Zoo, where they will be raised and later released into the wild. That move was a bit extreme, though. The scientists just want to understand the ecological aftermath of fires. “Hopefully, our science will start to show people that it is not just fire, but there could be problems for the frogs, fish and the runoff,” Todd M. Hoefen, a geophysicist said. “Wind and rain blowing the ash into streams and ponds could have an effect after the fire.”
This affects people that live near places where there are wildfires, like LA. The same thing that killed the fish could possible affect some humans. Also, it affects the wildlife of the earth and people should care.
The article was okay. It used easy to understand language (not much “science babble”) but it was kid of choppy (first there were 2 biologists, then another, then a geologist, another bio., geophysicist, etc.) What I mean by that is they could have organized by type of scientist so it’s easy to keep track of what angle they’re coming from. The topic wasn’t exactly riveting but, wildfires are important. And, hey, I chose the article in the first place.
This review was overall well presented. One thing that you presented well was the names of all the scientists who were involved after the fire. You also did a good job talking about all the animals that were or could have been affected by the fire. What the fire resulted in was presented very well also.
ReplyDeleteYou could have went into more detail about what the fire did to the mountains or land that it hit. Also you might have wanted to explain how the fire could have or might have been caused in the first place.
From this article, I learned how significant wildfires are because of how much they cause and they have a great impact on nature and society.
This review was very interesting to listen to. You did a good job on explaining the basic plot of this fire. You also went well into the details of the results of the fire as well as the research of it. And, the story was summarized well so that the class understood it.
ReplyDeleteYou could've explained more on the atopsies of the fire. And, you could've said more about the researchers of the fire.
Overall, from this article I learned that wildfires affect the nature surrounding it because of their power and area.
I thought that Victoria was able to explain very well how wildfires affect everyone and why they are important to know about. Her review also flowed extremely well, making it easy to understand. Lastly, I enjoyed that she said both the good and bad sides of the article and not just one or the other.
ReplyDeleteShe could have gone into more detail about the causes of wildfires and how the number of them is increasing. I was also wondering if these were natural wildfires or did humans cause them.
I learned how wild fires that are in places such as LA affect a lot of their wildlife.