A previously dormant bud sprouts from a coastal redwood that was burned and thought to be dead in the CZU Lightning Complex Fire. Erik Sather / Northern Arizona University
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New research has found that California’s coastal redwoods have the remarkable capacity to recover from severe wildfires.
The study led by researchers from Northern Arizona University (NAU) looked at the ancient trees’ recovery from the CZU Lightning Complex Fire, which burned thousands of acres in California’s Big Basin State Park in the summer of 2020, a press release from NAU said. Some of the redwoods affected by the fire were over 1,500 years old.
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