How Can You Tell If A Fire-Damaged Tree is Going to Die?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video we talk with Danny Cluck about factors influencing the survival of conifer trees damaged by wildfire.
I first got to know Danny Cluck in the mid-1990s when we were both working for the US Forest Service. I was on a tree-marking crew and he was a biologist who would come out on Fridays to mark trees with us because we got paid overtime and biologists didn't. Since then, he has become one of the West Coast's experts in forest insects and forest health.
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nice to learn, I have always wondered this
Thank you for this very informative content!
This is fantastic information to learn! Thanks and great video
Wow this guy really knows his stuff about tree's post a fire event. He is truly a scientist.
Abosolutely amazing great stuff. Thank you
Thank you guys!
It is devastating so many acres of tree died. I miss the smell the woods back home. I was born and raised in Westwood.
Fantastic explanation. Respect.
Good information! I had some assumptions that seemed to mostly be confirmed by this video, but maybe I was a little too optimistic in some cases. Thanks for sharing this knowledge!
It's been almost 3 years since the notorious 'Camp Fire' devastated Paradise & much of my town, Magalia. It's bad enough that only some of the residences & businesses are being built back, but much of the once-beautiful heavy forest here is still dying. My own neighborhood was saved by heroic firefighters, but the fire got within a half-mile, so I get to see a before-and-after scenario several times a week.
The encouraging news is that local & county officials are planning for future threats in building back our towns.
BTW, Highway 36 mentioned in this video was our only escape route; we all were cut off from driving thru Paradise, so we had to go the opposite direction (back-tracking) 30 miles before we could get to 36. It was our *only* escape route. Driving down to Chico on 36, the sky turned into night in that afternoon, and we could see the enormous flames consuming our towns from 7 miles away thru gaps in the mountain! Scary times.
It's been known for decades the escape routes are insufficient out of Paradise.
Probably best answer is to park on the airfield.
Thanks for this. Learn and teach🔥👍
Thank you for providing hope to us on at least some of the forest recovery. Like all living things water will be essential. Thank you so much for this information.
Great discussion. Learn something new each time I watch. Thanks!
I wish he could have discussed oak trees. I am seeing many die here in Sonoma County that were impacted by all our fires over last four years. Some held out for a year or two before death. Hard to say if they might have made it but for drought but sure is sad to see...
As one who taught roadside hazard tree evaluation for a number of years before my retirement, I can only say that I hope that Danny Cluck's studies about fire-damaged tree mortality can move into the larger realm of assessing whether a fire-damaged tree large enough to reach a road can be incorporated into the assessment of roadside hazard trees. The determination of whether a fire-damaged tree posed a danger over the long term (outside of obvious structural damage) was always somewhat outside of our damage/disease assessment process because of the iffy-ness of existing data; any research that can help make better calls on fire-damaged trees without obvious structural defect is a really good thing...
Good stuff!
Great info for my little Forrest land. Thanks.
Thank you, I was concerned with some of the trees left standing would survive.
Good one, very educational. The new sticker looks great.
Thanks!
What constitutes crown damage? Brown needles or burnt off needles? Obviously the trees that get toasted are done but are the browned trees done too or is there a chance or not for those?
Wondering the same thing... have many trees on my property that are just brown needles following the fire...
Thanks
A property I camp on every year was burned in the Sierra's near Shaver Lake in 1989, with it being mostly a ground fire. After the initial die off within three years, I observed secondary die offs of the fire damaged trees with every following drought. This continued with the most recent drought that also killed many trees previously untouched by the 1989 fire as they could not resist the beetles. Some areas that had crown fires in 1989 have never recovered to resemble what they were before that fire. Now the Creek fire has burned through, causing far more damage than the 1989 fire.
Now I’m mad at bark beetles.
good content, perhaps he could have mentioned what species where more prone to mortality, i have heard douglas fir do not fair well compared to pines, just wondering if his data agrees.
Firs seemed to burn less on my property... was just what I observed... who knows with time.
Would be good to learn more about mortality and survival in redwoods and hardwoods.
Would be nice to go through more of the info those studies have shown. Like species x damage mortality. Show what levels of crown damage look like. Show what levels of cambium damage look like.
I'll look for a link to the study he mentioned.
What is your definition of Crown? The top of the tree or the green growth of the tree?
What is considered the tree's crown .... the very top? 10 feet from the top, 20-feet? .... is there a specific description? I just drove through Highway 36 to Chester and was also wondering whether trees that looked badly scorched, somewhat scorched would survive.
The crown of a tree consists of the mass of foliage and branches growing outward from the trunk of the tree
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Interesting, to me, that stats are gathered on fire damage like this. Got to imagine fire chasers asbestosing/prepping their trucks lol.
I’m glad that Danny is hoping for life for those trees, and I’m also glad he didn’t bring up Anthropogenic Climate Change (or Climate Change, as it is usually called).
The trees will be OK. They came back after much longer droughts in the not too distant past.
Edit: “lol”
Cut more trees!! That could take Bark beetles with cut trees!