I was in the local forest last evening and observed the natural healing process that is happening. In the small area that I was in the deciduous trees are growing back from the roots. Most of the little bushes in my pictures are new trees and most of what isn’t eastern red cedar is ash and black locust. I don’t think the cedars will grow back or the pines either. I’ve attached a little story about the fire that I found interesting lAfter Bovee Fire, Nebraska National Forest confronts its hand-planted history
Quite the story. Around here, we take for granted that the area will be replanted after a fire same as after it is logged off. The replanting were usually all one species but now they are using a variety of trees. I found the original intention of planting a forest in the middle of grassland quite interesting. thanks for sharing.
Look at all those black locust sprouts! I never even knew there was a large man-made forest there. I'm sure in time it'll bounce back. The next few years will look like a tangled mess, with dense thickets of new sprouts competing for sunlight. Eventually it should self-thin. It's interesting that out here a couple hundred years ago the forests were cut down everywhere for pasture/planting, and where you are they did the opposite turning natural rolling grasslands into forest. Mankind is funny like that.
Always sad to see forests/trees destroyed by fire/ wind etc. Nature recovers, albeit slowly. This was a virgin forest in NW Connecticut that was almost completely destroyed by a tornado in 1989. Massive pines and hemlocks snapped like match sticks.
