Last week we were burning; this week we were planting. (Or, I should say, the guys in the picture below were planting. This crew of, well, non-English speakers, planted more trees, in worse conditions, in a shorter period of time than any, well, English speakers could have.) The plan was to put 25,000 native Douglas fir and ponderosa pine seedlings on some of the steep slopes above the North Fork of North Creek that had burned during the Twitchell Fire. Did I say steep? Fifty and sixty percent slopes. Rocky, too. It will be interesting to go back in a few years to check on the survival rate. On the other hand, there were plenty of large trees growing on these slopes before the fire, so we know that the site can support them. It was also nice to see all the sprouting—aspen, oak, mahogany, kinnikinnick, rose, elderberry. The early seral sprouting species certainly benefited from the fire.
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