The 2018 416 Fire burned in the Hermosa Creek Drainage just North of Durango. As the fire moved across the landscape, it encountered various fuel conditions and forest types and thus burned at different intensities across the Hermosa geography. As a result, the landscape is left as a mosaic with plants in various successional stages. This provides an excellent opportunity to explore how fire interacts with forests and how plants respond to disturbance through a botanical lens. This field trip will take participants on a short hike up the Hermosa Creek trail to examine plant communities in different burn severities. As a group we will see how species present in these different burn severities differ. These observations will be conducted in tandem to other data be collected by Mountain Studies Institute to improve our understanding of how forests respond to fire.