5 years after Oregon’s Labor Day fires, scientists find surprises in streams

Scientists have been studying how water quality and wildlife have fared in 30 streams in the five years since Oregon’s Labor Day Fires, one of the state’s most extreme wildfire events. Now, their preliminary results are turning the scientific understanding of fire recovery on its head. Instead of suffering, aquatic wildlife is thriving in all of the streams — with one exception — where salvage logging has occurred.