In 2006, the Tripod Complex fire tore through the Okanogan National Forest. The fire was bad, but its effect on the wildlife habitat was worse. FOX13
Canada lynx, an elusive medium-sized wildcat, have struggled to keep numbers up in the North Cascades while wildfire have eaten up their historic range. Lynx love dense forests, so do wildfires. The fire burned up some of the best lynx habitat in the West.
Fire ecologists believe that prescribed burns can restore a historical patchwork of fire breaks that could prevent future megafires, but doing so creates a conundrum: to save lynx, you need to prescribe burn the very habitat they rely on. The hypothetical sweet spot could save the species.As Carmen Vanbianchi points out two sets of lynx footprints in fresh snow alongside a mountain near Winthrop, you can tell she is excited.
Those paws – much larger than bobcats, which they are often mistaken for – allow them to glide quickly over deep snowpack. That movement is key, because their primary prey, snowshoe hares, are fast, and agile in their own right. Of course, trapping a lynx is no easy task. Machowicz said the traps they use are a design that’s been used in the field before. They know what types of thing attract lynx too: deer meat, various urine and glands to add unique scents they are used to tracking.
Climate change-driven megafires have already arrived in Washington state, though fire ecologists expect a warmer, drier future.
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