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GB_RN

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15. Sequoias Actually Need These Fires...

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Fri Jul 15, 2022, 09:48 PM

Jul 2022

The cones won't open without the heat. The seedlings need the fires to have cleared out undergrowth and opened holes in the canopy so they can get sunlight, and the fires return nutrients to the soil.

"Forestry management" has actually done these trees and other forests a huge disservice. All it is doing is trying to protect the tourism value of the forest, as-is, but jeopardizes the sequoias' survival long-term because there are few to no seedlings. Basically, the forest isn't in a natural state.

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Once thought to be basically immortal, sequoias are now dying in droves [View all] Nevilledog Jul 2022 OP

See them while you can, I guess . . . . hatrack Jul 2022 #1

Bristlecone Pines, also ancient trees, are dying by the 1,000s in the mountains above Death Valley hatrack Jul 2022 #2

Maybe groves of sequoia can be started in places that aren't so rainfall-challenged? FakeNoose Jul 2022 #3

Michigan NickB79 Jul 2022 #7

"Parking Lot" by Joni Mitchell: SCantiGOP Jul 2022 #4

If you're going to quote the lyrics, please quote them correctly. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2022 #13

No big deal, but SCantiGOP Jul 2022 #19

I'm old enough to remember when that song came out. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2022 #21

We just can't have nothin! Chainfire Jul 2022 #5

K & R x 1000 Duppers Jul 2022 #6

Canary in the coalmine. Maybe our species will pay attention to this one... Lancero Jul 2022 #8

No they won't Rebl2 Jul 2022 #10

That's the evidence-based conclusion**nm misanthrope Jul 2022 #16

Fuck SalviaBlue Jul 2022 #9

+1, uponit7771 Jul 2022 #22

We humans sometimes really mess up badly. Imagine ...we are at least partly KPN Jul 2022 #11

A little knowledge Botany Jul 2022 #12

Oh, knew about the fire part but not the clouds/fog part. electric_blue68 Jul 2022 #18

Everything that lives eventually dies. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2022 #14

Sequoias Actually Need These Fires... GB_RN Jul 2022 #15

"These fires" are not what the trees need . . . . hatrack Jul 2022 #17

Dammit, reality is moving closer to Silent Running HuskyOffset Jul 2022 #20