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WOW!                                                               Fiery feast

                                                                    Once a forest fire has died away,
                                                                    many animals come to the area
                                                                    to find food.


















                                                                    Bark beetle   This burrowing beetle
                                                                    feeds on the burned wood.


















                                                                    Black-backed woodpecker
                                                                    This bird feasts on the insects.







            New trees                        Forest
         Over time, grasses,             Some forests take
       shrubs, and then small           hundreds of years to
       trees grow on the forest       fully regrow after a fire.
      floor. Eventually, the new     Pine forests recover more
         plants will cover the            quickly and can
           burned ground.                regrow completely          Vulture   This bird scavenges on any
                                            in 40 years.            animals that didn’t survive the fire.




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