When redwoods are damaged, a hormonal response activates growth in dormant buds that sprout up as new branches and needles along the tree’s trunk and base, Kerbavaz explained. “From my perspective - looking at the redwoods - even the dead ones aren’t dead, except a tiny portion of them, that are really small and not resprouting,” Kerbavaz said. Redwoods here that were engulfed by flames already have new growth. “They have these incredible built-in abilities to quickly respond and thrive after fire.”Įven in death, the trees regenerate. “It’s very very difficult to kill a redwood tree,” said Joanne Kerbavaz, senior environmental scientist with California State Parks. Other trees across Santa Cruz County forests, such as Douglas fir and Knobcone pine, didn’t fare as well. Fuzzy new green growth has sprouted at the base of the trees. Redwoods stand resilient despite being torched in part of Fall Creek, a unit of Henry Cowell State Park. Some span the length of the giants’ mighty trunks, nearly 100 feet long, running up into the canopy.īut the trees – soaring up to 300 feet tall – stand resilient. In Fall Creek, a 2,390 acre unit of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, redwoods now bear charcoal scars.
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