California Gardening: Crown Fire - The Aftermath, 1 by SingingWolf

SingingWolf wrote:
Marie, you'll have to give me a chance to post them first. LOL, Let me finish this one first. I do have to admit that most people wouldn't take the time to wade through all these photos, but I hope to be able to return to these same locations over the next couple of years and document how the land and animals recover from such devastation. Honestly, it was like a lunar landscape in some places. In others, well, you'll see.
We'll be okay, despite the loss. As long as we can pay our bills, and have food on the table, we figure that we're rich. : - )
About the Hawk photos, I got lucky to be at the right place at the right time, with plenty of battery power, in my camera. Although, if I hadn't seen the quail, and asked DH to stop I might have missed the Hawk completely. How seredipitous! : - )
You know I forget which location this one is, but I think it's the one that was waaay down the valley.
Amazing what a fire break can do to protect property. The fire was burning hot and fast, and you can see that it mostly consumed the dried grasses, and some of those bushes are going to come back, Thing is the fire went through there so fast it didn't even burn the leaves off some of the bushes. They are scorched, but they remain on the bush.
Forestry management people think that it's a good thing to let fires like this one burn, as they would naturally, they don't try to stop them when so much land is involved, and structures/homes aren't threatened.
One of the reasons I want to document what happens over time. : - )