The plants in the burn scar of the Cedar Fire have started to recover and now it’s hard to tell a fire burned in the area.
started in the Cleveland National Forest, when a lost hiker started a fire to signal help. Right from the start, fire crews had several things working against them, including the flames burning in an area with no easy access for vehicles and it was too late in the day for helicopters to make water drops.
"The wind shifted and shifted the fire and got it down to Scripps Ranch and burned out all those homes," said Hargin.But what may look burned out is also a natural cycle for native plants. Calfire Division Chief Eric Just says Mother Nature can be amazingly resilient. Twenty years later now that burn scar is thriving, the coyote brush is providing pollen and nectar to the bees and butterflies, the scrub oaks have returned and are as big as they ever were. The buckwheat has bloomed and produced an abundance of seeds
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