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Here is a thoughtful article about changes that foresters are seeing in some of the forests around the world that have been decimated by wildfires. In a number of places, after a fire comes through, there is no regrowth of trees even after a number of years. This has been attributed to changes in the climate that make the growth of new trees much harder in those areas. We don’t have as much wildfire in the Southeast as they do out west, but if we have more years like 2016 with a severe drought that brings in more fires, it could be a greater concern in the future. You can read the article at Yahoo Newshere.
A wildfire that officials say quickly spread through dead trees that still hadn’t been cleared after Hurricane Michael forced the evacuation of nearly two dozen homes in Florida’s Panhandle on March 31, 2019. [Florida Forest Service]
