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There are trees that cannot reproduce unless their seed pods are baked open Animals coming back to scorched areas carry all kinds of seeds with them that love

There are trees that cannot reproduce unless their seed pods are baked open Animals coming back to scorched areas carry all kinds of seeds with them that love the mineral- and carbon-rich environment Some deer can grow beautiful atypical racks only when feeding in areas ravaged by fire And burning-out old growth and underbrush allows whole new generations of forest to start because their impediments to growth are gone Seems like the best thing to do is to let the fires run their course (at least the ones started naturally) .. and maybe note the risks of living near treelines like people who live near water lines know they could be flooded

hammock 9y ago
>There are trees that cannot reproduce unless their seed pods are baked open Aspen and lodgepole pine
- freehunter 9y ago
  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.
  - TommyBombadil 9y ago
    Giant Sequoia is another: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoiadendron_giganteum#Ecology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoiadendron_giganteum#Ecolo...
- warrenm 9y ago
  I knew somebody'd find the species names
Gustomaximus 9y ago
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-reductions https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fire-information/hazard-reduction...

hammock 9y ago

>There are trees that cannot reproduce unless their seed pods are baked open Aspen and lodgepole pine

freehunter 9y ago
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.
- TommyBombadil 9y ago
  Giant Sequoia is another: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoiadendron_giganteum#Ecology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoiadendron_giganteum#Ecolo...
warrenm 9y ago
I knew somebody'd find the species names

Gustomaximus 9y ago

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-reductions https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fire-information/hazard-reduction...