BTW, if these people think that they are going to get a meadow simply by burning after an such an unprecedented term of fire-suppression they are probably mistaken. Coniferous species have succeeded in these former meadows. Their rotting needles and bark have been attacking the seed bank of meadow species. The trees have dumped an awful lot of seed. It isn't mentioned in this article, but I recall that the orthodoxy on the spread of forests in the Sierra Nevada said that it was the overgrazing of sheep which destroyed the meadows, allowing more trees to take hold. It does not bear on the remediation, but I'm curious that Gruell doesn't mention the theory.
Yet another tremendous argument against the eco-wackos as powerful as faking their lynx hair discoveries.