August 14, 2008: Recovery & Renewal

[Easy]

The bush in Australia is well adapted to recovering from bushfire as its so damn hot and dry here they happen all the time. Actually several species of plant such as the banksia require fire to germinate new seeds.

Here are some photos of regrowth after a bushfire in NE Victoria around 3 months after the actual fire:

http://www.pbase.com/greytails/bushf...06_ne_victoria

[Kingswood]

Originally Posted by Easy

The bush in Australia is well adapted to recovering from bushfire as its so damn hot and dry here they happen all the time. Actually several species of plant such as the banksia require fire to germinate new seeds.

Here are some photos of regrowth after a bushfire in NE Victoria around 3 months after the actual fire:

http://www.pbase.com/greytails/bushf...06_ne_victoria

What a summer that was. This was a big fire that burnt for about 10 weeks, from early December 2006 to mid-February 2007. The fire became such a fixture that summer that the Bureau of Meteorology put out forecasts for Melbourne with "smoky" in addition to the usual fine, showers, windy, rain.

These photos showed that the bush had already started its recovery with new green growth by the time the fire itself was extinguished.