Wesley "Yeti Legs" Black

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3,123 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 10 Aug

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Yeti Walks Into Basecamp | Talking. Thru. Hiking. · E104 | Wildfire & Hiking | Nuance Of Fire Ecology | w/ Dr. Emily Schultz · 10 Aug 2026 podcast

Thanks, Ram, for sponsoring this episode and for believing in our show. voice-verified

What is your whole like relationship with fire and and climate change and voice-verified

Like you being a hiker and lover of the outdoors, how has it affected you? voice-verified

So as as to the fire severity, there's like I wanna start with like the bad and then I wanna ask a question on like the the positive and what to expect. voice-verified

So you've you've got a fire and it burns through a region, let's just say hypothetical acreage, twenty thousand acres, right? voice-verified

And you can get two scenarios. voice-verified

It can be extremely severe. voice-verified

And it can completely cook the seed bank. voice-verified

So really not much is going to recruit in that area unless it's facilitated by a vector or like a bird drops a seed, right? voice-verified

And then you have those less severe fires that will start to allow, you know, new stages of succession to recruit and start to grow in those areas. voice-verified

So like what what's the tipping point for the fire? voice-verified

completely devastating an area versus being like just right to allow revegetation to occur. voice-verified

Yeah, I'm thinking about whenever we hike the Arizona Trail, you know, the trail goes through the the largest ponderosa forest in the world. voice-verified

And I remember seeing several areas of burn, you know, either prescribed or, you know, wildfires. voice-verified

And there was a lot of oak starting to take back over. voice-verified

And I'm thinking here in Colorado, we we do have oak, gamble oak, but we also have aspen as well. voice-verified

So these are those types of trees that following a fire might be a bit more inclined and opportunistic to like start to to grow. voice-verified

Is that right? voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

And following a fire on, let's just say my favorite long distance trail, just pick the PCT. voice-verified

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