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Opinion: How Fire Heals Forests: A Local Perspective

from The Healdsburg Tribune, June 4, 2020

Opinion: How Fire Heals Forests: A Local Perspective The Healdsburg Tribune, June 4, 2020 The fire cycle, Katja Svendsen says, is sort of like nature's cleaning service; it cleans out the forest. "I don't know if you've gone walking in any of our regional parks that were burned, but it’s a cleansing renewal. It burns everything down, and it looks bleak, but then two to three weeks afterwards there is grass and plants growing, animals come back as we've seen and the trees grow up and they start to become mature," she said. She said historically forests in the area were not as dense and trees were thinner and spaced further apart due to more periodic burns and fuel burns done by the natives that lived in the area. READ MORE

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