News Headline
Nature Replants Its Own Burned Forests, Environmentalists Say
Source
Sci-Tech Today
Publication Date
2015-09-29
During the dry summer of 2011, wind gusts sent a 75-foot aspen tumbling into a power line, sparking a fire on federal land that burned for five weeks over an area the size of Manhattan. All that was left in the hottest burn zones was a silent swath of blackened trees and ash-covered ground.