how fire helps the forest

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how fire helps the forest

Post by RedRaptor96 » Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:02 pm

fire is helpful in places like canda where it is cold trees that are dead take years to decomps and inside the dead trees are iron and mag and stuff that new life needs fire helps the tree decomps thus leting new life grow and these iron and stuff helps the new life grow and the fire lets the dead trees decomps leting all the stuff out that new life needs
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Re: how fire helps the forest

Post by Sambhur » Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:57 am

Fire does help some forests quite a bit. Here, in Australia, the trees and plants are highly adapted to bushfires, and some even require them to release their seeds. Here's a webpage with some info: http://www.auseco.com.au/index.asp?page ... +bushfires
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Re: how fire helps the forest

Post by RedRaptor96 » Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:38 am

yes and that too fire in places like canda helps trees that take years to decomps only hours and those dead trees have stuff that new plant life needs same with dead animals also.
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