Re:Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western ...
by panopticon on Thursday August 05, 2021 @09:49PM
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> That's not how it works. Most larger trees survive fires just fine, they just don't look very pretty for a while afterwards.
In theory that's how it should work. The problem is when you have heat plus drought conditions... the wildfires consume everything.
For example, the Castle fire in California consumed over a tenth of the entire population of giant sequoias. Giant sequoias are pretty fire resistant due to their size and height, but this fire devastated them.
In theory that's how it should work. The problem is when you have heat plus drought conditions... the wildfires consume everything.
For example, the Castle fire in California consumed over a tenth of the entire population of giant sequoias. Giant sequoias are pretty fire resistant due to their size and height, but this fire devastated them.