Fire Regenerated Bush - a photo on Flickriver

            This late afternoon scene was taken just prior to sunset on a west facing slope of Mount Hotham in Victoria, Australia.

This is an alpine area where snow gums abound and the white tree trunks standing like grave markers in a cemetery, are the trunks of snow gums that died from the intense heat of a recent bushfire. 
  
As can be seen the forest floor has regenerated, and this process was started by the very same fire that destroyed so many trees - the heat from a fire is required to both release some seeds and crack open others that have sat dormant waiting for the right conditions. 

Fire removes low-growing underbrush, cleans the forest floor of debris, nourishes the soil and opens up the ground to more sunlight thereby allowing seedlings that were released by the fire to sprout and grow.

Fire also kills diseases and insects that prey on trees, and it has been stated that worldwide more trees die each year from insect infestations and disease than from fire. 

Eventually these dead trunks will fall and decay thereby adding further nutrients to the soil.

Taken on: December 30, 2021

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, f/14.0, 1/40 sec, 125mm, ISO 1250 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Lens:	TAMRON 35-150mm F/2.8-4.0 Di VC OSD A043
Aperture:	f/14.0
Exposure Time:	0.025 sec (1/40)
Focal Length:	125mm
ISO:	1250
Exposure Bias:	-4/3 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
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