After a normal fire trees begin regrowing immediately, and many trees survive. The fires weve been having are in forests choked with dead fuel, so they burn ext

After a normal fire trees begin regrowing immediately, and many trees survive. The fires weve been having are in forests choked with dead fuel, so they burn extremely hot and kill absolutely everything including the soil. There is supposed the be a mycelial network and microorganisms and seeds left in place after a fire. Part of the reason for the current state of things is mismanagement through blanket fire prevention. Another part is things like pine beetle in colorado and new mexico killing millions of acres of trees because of warmer temperatures associated with climate change, and that wood drying out for years in the desert air.