The hike was amazing. In the health areas of the forest where the forest was thin and the fire wasn't so hot, it was super green and the trees and grasses were thriving. Where the fire burned hot, there were only a few green things coming back. Most of the pictures in this post are probably the "traditional" views you think of when you think of forest fire, but the lesson of the class was how healthy fire is for a forest and that frequent fires really make a forest thrive in its diversity and beauty.
Our professor called this the quixotic nature of fire - that half a bush would be totally destroyed by fire and the other half would thrive.
Beauty found in a healthy burn.
This is our class walking near the top of the hill, in the hottest part of the burn - not many things have started to come back yet.
Looking from the burned area toward the Caldera.
This is a picture of a tree that had a virus or bacteria. It could have been this way before the fire.
This is returning green in a really hotly burned area.
This is an image of trees - it was not taken with a fish eye lens.
This is the valley where the Las Conchas fire started.
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