Post Fire Images: Santiago Truck Trail-Luge

I agree, let's look at the bright side, we wont have to brush any overhanging limbs anytime soon:?: I just wore out another set of loppers tonight. We can bitch and moan about losing our shade but I am curious how long it will be until the critters can come back home.:-k

 

Pretty wild looking back at this five years later!! What a difference, green everywhere its pretty awesome seeing how quickly nature recovers!!

 

Not so true when the fire gets into tall timber. Look at the forest on the way up to Sherman Peak, the cannel plunge ride. Decades later and it still has not recovered nor will the big tress ever grow back.

 

Why wouldnt the trees grow back eventually? Trees will always grow back when given the chance, they just take their sweet time. In some cases trees need up to 30 years of leaf litter and detritus to germinate. There will be trees there again, they just may not be there within our lifetime. :/

 

They are stating climate change. Many parts of the Sierras don't get the rain totals they once did. Biologists say that the big trees will not return on that section. The scrub oaks some hardwoods certain pines yes. But the big trees lodge pole, red fir and sequoias gone forever.