[pct-l] Fire near Tejon Ranch

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Christine is right. There was a fire in 1910 on Mount Si in WA. The bark is  
still shows evident's of the fire on one side. That's almost 100  years. Of 
course we have tougher hides up here in the great North West.
 
Lonetrail

Mike,Don't worry too much about the oaks.  Most of 'em will  survive the 
fire, and
in five years, you won't be able to tell (at least  from the oaks) that a
fire had passed through.  It *will* look like a  moonscape for a while, but
oaks have a remarkable capability to sprout new  shoots from many dormant
nodes along their branches post-fire.     The bark is burned, but the cambium
layer - the living part of the trunk  and branches - is still alive inside,
where it counts.

Christine  "Ceanothus" Kudija
PCT partially '94

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Ceanothus (see-ah-no-thus) or California lilac:  Shrubs or  small trees,
often with divaricate, sometimes spiny, twigs...[flowers]  small but showy,
white to blue or purplish, sometimes lavender or pinkish,  borne in terminal
or lateral panicles or umbellike cymes.
Philip  A.
Munz
A California
Flora, U.C. Press, 1973


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