Much of the area burned by the Archie Creek fire near Roseburg is Bureau of Land Management land. Credit Rachael McDonald
The Archie Creek Fire burned more than 131,000 acres in Douglas County, including an area where OSU already has gathered data. The Hinkle Creek study was established in the early 2000s. It looked at modern logging systems’ impacts on water and forests. OSU College of Forestry researcher Kevin Bladon said this is a unique opportunity. “We can go back and then disentangle the effects from the fire from what is natural background variability at these sites and that will provide really valuable insights for us in terms of fire effects,” Bladon said.