Flat terrain and surviving seed trees allow quick conifer regrowth after fire

Evidence

In this photograph young healthy spruce and balsam fir seedlings have sprung up in profusion where a fire raged only about ten years before. This is a natural regeneration, since the few trees that were saved from the fire were able to spread their seeds over the ground here and the soil was not too badly hurt by the fire. Being on flat land, rather than a hillside, the soil was also naturally deeper, and few rocks interfered with growth. — Vinson Brown, Reading the Woods, 414

Categorization

• XREF: Contrast to the earlier ‘Root-system depth determines which species survive’ claim and ch1 slope/soil content. — connects to: Slope erosion after fire can prevent forest regrowth for centuries — Vinson Brown, Reading the Woods: Seeing More in…, 411; Hidden mycorrhizal networks allow logged or burned forests to regrow — Jamal Awil, The Whispering Archive: The Complete…, 1683; Virtually every BWCA forest stand regenerated after fire since 1595 — Miron L. Heinselman, Fire in the Virgin Forests of the…, 2 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Hidden mycorrhizal networks allow logged or burned forests to regrow #complicates (0.75) — Jamal Awil, The Whispering Archive, 1683