Jack pine, birches, and aspen colonize fire and logging damaged soils

Evidence

Where the land has been greatly impaired by either fire or overcutting by lumbermen, the soil is often not capable of raising the main conifers, and here the jack pine takes over because of its ability to grow in poor soil. The paper and yellow birches, and the quaking aspen are two other types of trees that also can move into sunlit open spaces where the land has been spoiled by fire or overcutting and grow into nurse trees. — Vinson Brown, Reading the Woods, 861

Categorization

• XREF: 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; A tree survived logging by appearing useless to timber interests — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 22 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Hidden mycorrhizal networks allow logged or burned forests to regrow #contradicts (0.80) — Jamal Awil, The Whispering Archive, 1683
• A tree survived logging by appearing useless to timber interests #expands (0.72) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 22