Comment on redwoods
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours agoGrowing up in California (especially Southern) you learn about “Fire Ecology” and how wildfires are a normal and natural part of the ecosystem and that many California-native flora are dependent on semi-regular burns. The problem with the fires lately isnt that they’re happening, it’s that they’re happening too frequently.
Basically, don’t worry, those sequoias will outlive us all
I get all choked up seeing them a year or so after a fire, the limbs burn off and they start sending thousands of new little baby limbs out, most will die back and the ones in the best positions will grow. The the whole upper part of the tree is green with new life and I’m just so proud of them.
We’ve had some pretty devastating fires here, so the emotions are high.
Nature is amazing, thanks for the photo
grue@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I thought the problem was that they weren’t happening frequently enough, allowing too much undergrowth to build up and make them worse than they’re supposed to be?
(But I’m not from California, so you probably know better.)