[Terrapreta] wildfire

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi David, Larry, and others,

Don't big trees like the giant Coastal Redwoods and big Douglas Firs survive crown fires?  I heard one in a tour out in California or Oregon in the Coastal Redwoods that you could burn everything off the outside of those trees all the way to the top and they would survive and re-sprout new growth right from the charred trunks.

Just wondering?

Regards,

SKB

...
  big old trees will normally survive a cool ground fire of wet, green growth.  a high temperature crown fire fed by dense dry debris at ground level kills everything except the hardest seeds.

  David Yarrow
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