Thanks for your kind remarks. It was stressful to see the fire aftermath in these areas I used to enjoy exploring, but I'm looking forward to the seeing the land heal.
Nature can be more resilent than you'd expect. I just returned from Gran Canaria, where I had last been in 2011. In the summer of 2007 they had huge fires and the canary pine forests were severely burned. All the fallen dry needles and (huge) cones served as accelerators so that large areas had turned from green to black and brown. The trees, however, remained widely intact, thanks to their bark which (similarly to the one of the California sequoias) quenched the fire.
Four years later those trees were still black with patches of green needles at the end of the branches or the top of the trees. Now in 2016/17 you wouldn't even tell the difference between a burnt and a healthy tree. The former might be a bit black around its trunk.
distressbark - Jan 23, 2017 5:23 pm - Voted 10/10
Great page!I especially enjoy the before/after photos you put together. Well done!
scramblingbadger - Jan 23, 2017 10:21 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Great page!Thanks for your kind remarks. It was stressful to see the fire aftermath in these areas I used to enjoy exploring, but I'm looking forward to the seeing the land heal.
Gangolf Haub - Jan 24, 2017 1:43 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Great page!Nature can be more resilent than you'd expect. I just returned from Gran Canaria, where I had last been in 2011. In the summer of 2007 they had huge fires and the canary pine forests were severely burned. All the fallen dry needles and (huge) cones served as accelerators so that large areas had turned from green to black and brown. The trees, however, remained widely intact, thanks to their bark which (similarly to the one of the California sequoias) quenched the fire.
Four years later those trees were still black with patches of green needles at the end of the branches or the top of the trees. Now in 2016/17 you wouldn't even tell the difference between a burnt and a healthy tree. The former might be a bit black around its trunk.