Map Satellite Pinus jeffreyi, and white fir, Abies concolor, burned and afterwards the salvageable timber was logged. The area has been intensively studied since as an example of plant succession after a fire.
At the present time the dominant vegetation is primarily a low scrub including rabbit brush, Chrysothamnus nauseosus, tobacco brush, Ceanothus velutinus, bush chinquapin, Chrysolepis sempervirens, Symphoricarpos rotundifolius, and some Western juniper, Juniperus occidentalis. There are a few young pine and fir around the edge of the burn.
Gallatin Peak and the area to the north is one of the few outcrops in the Modoc Plateau of the granitics of the Sierra batholith.
Integrity: Burned and logged in 1951. There is no development.
Use: Private
Ref: Baum, Wayne, 1972. Ecological Studies Within the Gallatin Burn. M.A. Thesis, Unpub. Chico State University, California.
July 1976
Inventory of California Natural Areas
Revision © 2009 Steven Louis Hartman
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