Story By Hugh Powell; Photographs by Jeremy Roberts Black-backed Woodpecker by Jeremy Roberts/Conservation Media. June 17, 2019
Many fire ecologists have long had an alternate perspective on large, severe fires like Rice Ridge: that they are inevitable and largely unstoppable, like a hurricane. Far from destroying forests, these fires touch off a frenzy of ecological activity—a tumult of new plants, mushrooms, insects, amphibians, birds, and mammals—that’s unlike anything that happens in the quiet shade of a green forest.
Read the full article from Living Bird Magazine here: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/old-flames-the-tangled-history-of-forest-fires-wildlife-and-people/