“10,000 years?
It’ll be brushlands for the forseeable future, unless some seed trees survive. (not likely judging by the photos posted.)”
The run off will be catistrophic. I know this burn area as home.
These mountains were my sanctuary...
There are similar places in California, that were burned in the ‘40s and ‘50s that had large stands of Jeffry, which are a close cousin to the Ponderosa, both dessert trees, and they are brushlands now with an occasional ‘Digger’ pine here and there.
No evidence of a pending rebirth of the Jeffry forests.