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Many plants also need fires to repopulate. Its a huge issue.
by porkbeer 3y ago
Many plants also need fires to repopulate. Its a huge issue.
- SV_BubbleTime 3y agoPine barrens, and specifically the short leaf pine. https://www.fs.usda.gov/features/shortleaf-pine-future-requires-fire https://www.fs.usda.gov/features/shortleaf-pine-future-requi... And if you're into delicious mushrooms, Morels.
- masklinn 3y agoUnless it’s eucalypts, then they’ll eventually get it don’t you worry.
- grumpy-de-sre 3y agoAustralia's revenge for all the invasive species.
- goda90 3y agoOr they need fire to kill off trees that shade them out.
- undersuit 3y agoAhh but replacing old growth forest with burnt out scrub land is not what we necessarily want. Old trees dying and falling naturally creates openings in the canopy to permit new growth without resetting the forest to a grassland like a forest fire would do. A prescribed burn should burn out annual plant growth and leaf litter not perennial plant trunks.
- goda90 3y agoI'm talking about established prairie ecosystems. The plants there depend on saplings to be killed by fires before they become full grown trees, while they can recover from the fires quicker.
- undersuit 3y agoPrairies are formed by the rain shadow of the Rocky Mountains in the United States. They don't need help to beat back water hungry trees.