2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California park

The historic park headquarters is gone, as are many small buildings and campground infrastructure that went up in flames as fire swept through the park about 45 miles south of San Francisco.

“But the forest is not gone,” McLendon said. “It will regrow. Every old growth redwood I’ve ever seen, in Big Basin and other parks, has fire scars on them. They’ve been through multiple fires, possibly worse than this.” Fire burns in the hollow of an old-growth redwood tree in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Calif., on Aug. 24, 2020.When forest fires, windstorms and lightning hit redwood trees, those that don’t topple can resprout. Mother of the Forest, for example, used to be 329 feet tall, the tallest tree in the park. After the top broke off in a storm, a new trunk sprouted where the old growth had been.

Trees that fall feed the forest floor and become nurse trees from which new redwoods grow. Forest critters, from banana slugs to insects, thrive under logs.

Yes!! This makes me so happy💯 I love you, California.

Speaking of burning, Kenosha is burning to the ground......are you going ti report that?

a_fly_guy I am sooooo happy they made it. Redwoods are my favorite. ❤️

🙏🙏💕

excellent

That's not how you use commas.

They were here before us, they'll be here after us.

Great news😊🙏

They'll be destroyed or swallowed up by the Pacific Ocean at some point if the climate deniers don't wake up and join the fight.

Equally tall roots they have grown to fight against all adveversities

Until they don't. SAD!

Can’t phase the greatest living things on Earth.

Redwoods don’t give af they see hundreds

As they probably did before humans ever saw them.

Joe Biden infected 60 million Americans with H1N1 in 2009.. We're lucky he wasn't managing Covid19.

mspeggy50 Thank GOD

You cannot imagine what the tallest living things on earth look like and when you see them, you can’t quite believe what you are seeing. Unraked forest isn’t the problem. Extreme weather (unprecedented lighting strikes) due to climate change is.

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