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Jessie Dickson🌱 on Instagram: "What happens to a forest after a wildfire? Biodiversity thrives. This was a intact old growth forest with a native meadow. But like 99% of Californias grasslands it was destroyed with the old growth and turned into a monoculture lumber tree plantation. A plantation forest that had thousands of trees planted too closely together to maximize profit. It also maximized wildfire risk, creating a mega fire. Now 200 thousand acres are ashes. Mother Nature cleaned up the mess, and created habitat for rare and endangered wildflowers to bloom. This is how forest ecosystems have survived and healed for millions of years. Because fire brings biodiversity , it is a key part of forest ecology in California. Native Americans always knew this. We need to protect intact native old growth forest and grassland ecosystems in California and Canada because most of them are already gone. #oldgrowth #forest #logging #wildfire #grassland #rareplants #nativeplants #native #wildflowers #fire #ecology #california #canada #plantation #greenwashing #forestdefenseisclimatedefense #climateaction #endangeredspecies #habitat #nativeflowers #planting #trees #wildlife #sustainability #plantsofinstagram #mothernature #forestlovers #nativehabitatproject #botany #plantingtrees"

Jessie Dickson🌱 on Instagram: "I love chilling with the tallest trees in the world in one of the last intact old growth redwood forests left in the bay area of California. Protecting mature and old growth forests should be a number 1 priority globally, not just in California. Old growth trees take generations to return, and monoculture second growth lumber forests are factory farms forestry style that always make wildfires worse. Redwood trees are the tallest trees in the world and live to be over 2 thousand years old. Redwoods have extremely thick bark that acts like armor against wildfire. This old growth redwood was almost completely hollowed out by a fire and it’s still alive. Redwoods have shallow roots and need eachother to thrive and hold eachother down. You need a whole redwood forest for old growth to thrive. Logging old growth is completely unsustainable. That is why very little remains. Protect old growth forests in California and Canada before they are gone. #oldgrowth #redwood #forest #fire #logging #wildfire #tree #roots #oldgrowthforest #california #ancient #redwoods #native #trees #ecology #nativeplants #treebark #flooding #endangeredspecies #salmon #chinooksalmon #waterislife #forestdefenseisclimatedefense #nativehabitatproject #climateaction #bigtrees #indigenous #botany #river #rainforest"

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