Return from Yosemite/ Fire update

A few days ago I returned from my ten days out west. This was part of a special topics class where students from both the geography and English departments come together for a special trip designed to engage students in unfamiliar practices. For instance, part of the time spent out west was spent in San Francisco where we learned about beat poetry and its cultural influence in the 1950's. After five days on the coast, we headed inland to Yosemite. Here we conducted research on the El Cap moraine, and learned an incredible amount about the geologic history of Yosemite Valley. Looking back on it now while having hazards in my head, there were a couple very good examples of natural hazards. Enough for a couple posts about it! But before discussing any of that, I would like to post about the fire conditions, because that is the hot topic surrounding Yosemite. While in the visitor center, I snapped a few pictures of the fire maps which I'll show below. I might even have some charred Yosemite landscape pictures!

This is a simple map of the first status in Yosemite at September 21st. At the time having burned up over 250 thousand acres.