Wilderness Recovery After Wildfires
by Ram Vasudev
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Wilderness Recovery After Wildfires
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Ram Vasudev
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In view of wildfires out west in the recent past, I retrieved this image from my archives that illustrates how wilderness can recover from devastating wildfires, given sufficient rain and enough time.
The west coast, especially California, was ravaged by wildfires in 2018-2020. Now there are signs of reprieve, with some rain and snow, raising hopes of recovery of wilderness from the devastating wildfires.
This image shows wildflowers purple Poodle-dog bush (Common turricula, Turicula parryi) and white Matilija Poppy (Romneya coulteri), and wild grasses, with a backdrop of burnt trees on the San Gabriel Mountains, California. The image was captured in June 2011, two years after the devastating wildfires that engulfed many parts of the San Gabriel Mountains, just north of where we live. Wildfires in 2009 burned 250 square miles in the San Gabriel Mountains, the largest devastation in Los Angeles County's history. It caused scorched hillsides and blackened skeletons of trees and chaparral bush. However, the fire opened up canopies, providing sunlight where previously there was only shade and the ash from burnt trees returned essential minerals to depleted soils near the trees. The spring rain the following years encouraged wildflower seeds that were dormant for years to sprout. A profusion of these "fire-followers," like the Poodle-dog and Matilija Poppy flowers in this photo, had not been seen in the area for a while.
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