>There are trees that cannot reproduce unless their seed pods are baked open

Aspen and lodgepole pine

Jack pine is another, and a nearly-extinct bird really depends on these trees. The Kirtland's Warbler relies on large stands of young jack pine trees, and jack pine cones only open in intense heat of forest fires. Really sad, the birds can't survive in super cold climates and only like reproducing in jack pine forests, so the ending ice age and the formation of the Great Lakes trapped the birds in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. They can't move into the Upper Peninsula or Canada where jack pine is more common because it's too cold, and can't move further south because there aren't any jack pine forests further south.

As the number of wildfires has declined, so has the number of large stands of young jack pines. This has had a devastating impact on the Kirtland's Warbler, who already had their natural habitat decimated.

Giant Sequoia is another: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoiadendron_giganteum#Ecolo...

I knew somebody'd find the species names

There is middle ground here when you control combustible material around property and let the larger parts of the bush/forest do their thing in a fire.

Here is an example of this ongoing process/advise in Australia: https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fire-information/hazard-reduction...