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a r t i c l e i n f o stream channels. Processes that can affect wood recruitment vary by region, but generally include biological processes such as insect outbreaks and disease, and abiotic processes such as fire, floods, recruitment, characteristics, transport and storage of wood can af-fect a stream’s physical and biological condition, through direct and indirect mechanisms (Chen et al., 2008; Everett and Ruiz, 1993; Gurnell et al., 2002; Schneider and Winemiller, 2008). The current study focuses on the impacts of wildfire, an increasingly common disturbance, on the characteristics of wood recruited to streams. In addition to changing wood mass, fire changes the form of wood pieces and alters post-fire decomposition rates (Harmon, 1992). The specific effects of fire on characteristics of wood recruited to streams remain poorly understood