Other then impacting the human made reservoir (and roads and other structures) I don't know that it was a real problem at all (for the natural world), you may h

Other then impacting the human made reservoir (and roads and other structures) I don't know that it was a real problem at all (for the natural world), you may have a point. The erosion was quite heavy though as the fires were followed by very heavy (and unusual) torrential rains. You could see the deep channels in the slopes and the roads were also covered with sediment. They had to bring in heavy machinery for that as well. The area is recovering nicely now, it's grass with small saplings and I was up there this year and didn't really see any new erosion at all.