Having run across a recent article today from the Modesto Bee concerning water quality concerns brought about by the Rim Fire in California; my interest was piqued as to how fires, whether prescribed or wild, affect water chemistry and quality. Below, I have provided the aforementioned newspaper article, as well as four research articles on this rather intriguing subject. All are as follows:
Potential for Rim Fire Ash Runoff Raises Water Quality Concerns in Stanislaus County
(J. N. SBRANTI, Modesto Bee; November 9, 2013)
http://www.modbee.com/2013/11/09/3021465/potential-for-rim-fire-ash-runoffs.html
RESEARCH ARTICLES
The Influence of Wildfire Extent and Severity on Streamwater Chemistry, Sediment, and Temperature following the Hayman Fire, Colorado
(RHOADES et al., 2011)
http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs_other/rmrs_2011_rhoades_c001.pdf
Effects of 2003 Wildfires on Stream Chemistry in Glacier National Park, Montana
(MAST and CLOW., 2008)
http://www.cfc.umt.edu/CESU/Reports/NPS/UMT/2004/04_06Brown_Mast_Clow_fire and hydrology_GLAC.pdf
Effects of Wildfires on Soils and Watershed Processes
(ICE et al., 2004)
http://www.colorado.edu/geography/class_homepages/geog_3511_s12/readings/Fire_Watersheds_JForestry.pdf
Hydrologic and Water Quality Effects of Fire
(M. B. BAKER, 1990)
http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs_rm/rm_gtr191/rm_gtr191_031_042.pdf
C. Mei-Ling HAMILTON - Environmental Geochemistry Issues 