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.
Quick! Cut em all Down! Can’t risk forret fires! Depopulate the forests of their trees!
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?
“It is amazing to learn that carbon taken up decades ago can be used to sustain its growth into the future.”
Hooray for carbon!
One redwood tree will shed six billion seeds in its lifetime. Of the six billion seeds to fall, only one will reach maturity turning into a full-grown redwood.
As designed by nature.
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God’s plan for nature gets more wonderful every day.
Still, it’s unclear whether the trees could withstand the regular infernos that might occur under a warmer climate regime.
How does a seedling from a 300-foot tall tree, in a stand of 300-foot-tall trees, manage to find sunlight? Unless some of those trees disappears before it sprouts, it probably won’t. That’s why seeds of the redwood (& sequoia) are bound in the cone by resin. If there’s fire, the resin melts and the seed falls to the ground. If the seed finds purchase, and if enough of the taller trees were killed back by the fire, it has a chance to survive.
Fire isn’t just something they “recover” from, it’s elemental to their life cycle.