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Forest fires ! WOW!
Forest fires are a natural way for a forest Forest rangers
to renew and regrow. A forest fire can start in the US
naturally anywhere in the world when sometimes start
lightning strikes trees or plants. These are fires to control
called wildfires. Here are some of the good the size of
forests.
things that forest fires can do for forests.
Soil Seeds Dead wood
After a fire, the forest is Jack pine seeds start Dead burned wood has
covered in a layer of ash. to grow in the heat of a cracks, which provide
This ash mixes into the forest fire. Once the fire is ideal shelter for many
soil, making it rich finished, new shoots burst small animals, such
in nutrients for new through the ground. as mice, reptiles,
plants to grow. and birds.
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