Posted on 12/04/2023 7:57:00 AM PST by Red Badger
THIS BUD'S FOR YOU!..........................
Redwoods - water won’t rot it, fire won’t destroy it, bugs don’t like, and its light to carry. They get big and old. Closest thing in nature I have been in that is like a cathedral.
One thing I do not get, how can buds that just sprouted be 1000 years old, the tree sure, but the buds?
The buds aren’t 1,000yrs old; the tree might be. Many trees do this. I’m a Horticulturalist/Botanist and this is not unusual in Nature.
Quick! Cut em all Down! Can’t risk forret fires! Depopulate the forests of their trees!
That’s what I thought, the title of the article is not correct.
The findings suggest redwoods have the tools to cope with catastrophic fires driven by climate change, Rocha says. Still, it’s unclear whether the trees could withstand the regular infernos that might occur under a warmer climate regime.The author asks "Another question is how the redwoods would cope if a second catastrophic fire strikes soon."
But earlier the article points out the inferno devastated the canopy of the trees, so there's nothing left to burn. How would a second catastrophic fire occur without fuel?
Another question is how the redwoods would cope if Bill Gates decided to buy and bury them like he plans to do with 70,000 other trees?
Someone over at that pub can’t write coherently; you’re right,
I have a couple ‘old growth’ redwoods about 10 feet in diameter. They’re hollowed out by fire from wood rats building nests at the base. When a ground fire comes through the nest burns like a blow torch, burns through the bark and kills the whitewood in that area. Repeat and you’ll end up with a tree gutted 30 feet up with an annular growth ring a foot thick and 3/4 of the circumference. I use tag ends of redwood lumber as kindling in my stove. Burns great and green branches burn just fine.
This is all by design. Just as some species like Douglas Fir are not SHADE tolerant. Which is why for the seedlings to grow you have to CLEAR CUT. Meaning the small young seedlings will NOT grow if they are in the shade of larger trees. Some species will ONLY repopulate AFTER a forest fire. Natures way.
Right, the limbs can and do burn and the trees bark can be burnt but the tree themselves do not as noted by this article.
“How would a second catastrophic fire occur without fuel?”
It will not.
The trees have adapted to this. See my post.
At least that is what I recall from the text book of Dendrology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Technology. Where they literally wrote the book.
“It is amazing to learn that carbon taken up decades ago can be used to sustain its growth into the future.”
Hooray for carbon!
You wrote “some species like Douglas Fir are not SHADE tolerant. Which is why for the seedlings to grow you have to CLEAR CUT. Meaning the small young seedlings will NOT grow if they are in the shade of larger “
Hence the well-known species succession after fires if you don’t clear cut.
Sorry, I am getting old. Should be:
the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry @ Syracuse University.
I can’t even remember where I went to college.
With a memory like that, you must be as old as those redwood trees!
call The Lorax
The next fire might be a hundred years later...
1985 Alumni
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