[PCA] Need to survey every wildlands fire--who is fire-resistant?

[Craig Dremann - Redwood City Seed Company]

I wanted to add about the Southern California fire areas:  Within a month
or two after any fire that occurred in a wildlands situation, the local
home owners should hire a professional botanist or ecologist, who can do a
survey of the burn area and make a list of the plants that were fire
resistant.

Also, estimating what the proper denisty of the fire-resistant plants is
useful information to gather, also. Those plants could be replanted as
fire-breaks, for example.

Having a list of these native plants that have proved to be
fire-resistant, homeowners can increase the density of those plants around
their homes and in the canyons for the future.  Sometimes as few as a
couple of hundred widely spaced fire-resistant plant per acre, can lower
the overall impact of any future fire, and have something still growing in
the ground, to hold it against mud slides.

After many decades of fires in the Southern California coastal shrub
areas, has any professional botanists or ecologists ever gone out after
any of those fires, and did a botanical survey of the surviving and
still-thriving native species?

The usual routine is the shrubs in the native ecosystem, lacking an
adequate density of native perennial grass understory, burns to the roots,
rain comes, bare soil gets saturated, and without any living roots to hold
the soil, the mud slides, and massive amounts of mud end up covering part
of the PCH (Pacific Coast Highway) in Malibu?

Sincerely,  Craig Dremann (650) 325-7333