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* Impact of [[Fire issues in California's Central Coast Region|fires in California's Central Coast Region]]
 
* Impact of [[Fire issues in California's Central Coast Region|fires in California's Central Coast Region]]
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* Other [[Watershed Issues]]
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*[[Soberanes Fire]]
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*[[Basin-Indians Fire Erosion and Debris Flows|Basin Complex Fire]]
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*[[Zaca Fire|Zaca Fire]]
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*[[Kirk Complex Fire|Kirk Complex Fire]]
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*[[Painted Cave Fire|Painted Cave Fire]]
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*[[Rat Creek - Gorda Complex Fire|Rat Creek - Gorda Complex Fire]]
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*[[Marble Cone Fire|Marble Cone Fire]]
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*[[Santa Ana winds]]
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*[[California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW)]]
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*[[California Chaparral]]
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*[[Oak Woodlands of California's Central Coast Region]]
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*[[Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)]]
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*[[California's Central Coast Region]]
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*[[United States Forest Service (USFS)]]
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*[[California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire)]]
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*[[California Department of Parks and Recreation]]
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*[[United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM)]]
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*[[California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW)]]
  
 
== Disclaimer ==
 
== Disclaimer ==
  
 
This page may contain students' work completed as part of assigned coursework. It may not be accurate. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion or policy of [[CSUMB]], its staff, or students.
 
This page may contain students' work completed as part of assigned coursework. It may not be accurate. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion or policy of [[CSUMB]], its staff, or students.

Latest revision as of 12:34, 11 April 2017

Figure 1. Four major fires in the Ventana Wilderness area since 1977. Retrieved from baynature [1]

Summary

The Marble Cone fire began in on August 1, 1977 and lasted three weeks.[1] The Wildfire burned approximately 178,000 acres of the Ventana Wilderness area in the San Lucia Mountains. At the time, the fire was California's largest wildfire to date.[2] This was the first of four major fires in this area (Fig. 1).

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References

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_Cone_Fire
  2. http://heraldphotos.blogspot.com/2014/04/marble-cone-fire-1977.html

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