Wild Fire Area - Before and After

anonymouscubananonymouscuban Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 4,586 Major grins
edited March 19, 2009 in Landscapes
I shot this pano last November a couple weeks after a wild fire hit this area. It's an area in Chatsworth California a couple miles from my home. It's also where the Metro-Link Commutor train wreck occurred last September.

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This is the same place, slightly different perspective, taken yesterday afternoon. It's amazing how much green has grown in such a short time.

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  • PremiumMaltPremiumMalt Registered Users Posts: 41 Big grins
    edited March 18, 2009
    Very nice. You live right be me. Im in santa clarita:ivar
  • dogwooddogwood Registered Users Posts: 2,572 Major grins
    edited March 18, 2009
    Looks like what is known as a "chaparral fuel model" by wildland firefighers. These areas tend to burn every five to seven years. So expect the plants to fully grow back in a couple of years, then get ready for it to burn again. Not what you want to hear, but that's how nature does things.
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  • rontront Registered Users Posts: 1,473 Major grins
    edited March 18, 2009
    Both photos are beautiful!! Amazing what a fire does.

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  • Doug SolisDoug Solis Registered Users Posts: 1,190 Major grins
    edited March 19, 2009
    Very nice photos...........From death spawns new life.
  • dseidmandseidman Registered Users Posts: 824 Major grins
    edited March 19, 2009
    These are some nice comparison shots. It's pretty cool to see the changes to a landscape that fires are capable of bringing about.
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