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https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/08/25/forests-scorched-wildfire-unlikely-recover-may-convert-grasslands https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/08/25/forests-scorched-w... > Even 15 years post-fire, as many as 80% of the plots the researchers surveyed still contained no new trees.