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The next summer you could not walk in due to the growth reaching over your head and the roads were covered over.

I believe this was the case with the Mt. Saint Helens volcanic eruption. All life would take dozens of years to re establish itself yet within ten years life had returned.

[TalBlack]

Bikini Atoll came back from nuclear Armageddon pretty nice as well. Exxon Valdez and Prince William Sound anybody? Nature isnt stupid or weak.