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RE: FW: [RC] Fires and the environment - heidi

The sorts of quick burns that go through and clean out some brush and leave the trees standing do help some plants to germinate. 
 
The sorts of fires that we see with the accumulated ladder fuels due to the lack of management burn so hot in spots that they can actually sterilize the soil, so that NOTHING grows for decades.  We have areas like that from the huge burns here in central Idaho and western Montana from 2001-2002.  There are areas in north Idaho that burned that hot in 1910 that are just beginning to grow vegetation once again, almost a century later.
 
Heidi



Isn't fire necessary to the life cycles of some plant species? I mean, isn't it required to make them sprout, or seed, or take some particular step in their life cycle?
 
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