Fire Damage and a Wallaby
Last November this scene would have looked horrendous. A blackened landscape that one would think might take years to recover. But in fact the Australian and Tasmanian landscape is incredible in its fecundity. Regrowth after a bushfire is to see nature in hyperdrive.
Within a few more years there will be almost no evidence of fire in this landscape at all. And yet fires have always been an ever present reality in the Australian bush. Most fires (despite the concerning few that are lit by arsonists) start through lightning strikes.
Never mind Nature, she can look after herself. It's often when we try to interfere that we create drastic unintended consequences.
** [If you enlarge this photograph it's amazing what you can find. I have tagged an unlikely shy little creature, a Bennetts Wallaby. Can you see it too? I had no idea until I came to processing the shot. Sadly many of these little creatures did perish in the fires. But again, how reassuring to see them about in this landscape again.]
Fire Damage and a Wallaby
Last November this scene would have looked horrendous. A blackened landscape that one would think might take years to recover. But in fact the Australian and Tasmanian landscape is incredible in its fecundity. Regrowth after a bushfire is to see nature in hyperdrive.
Within a few more years there will be almost no evidence of fire in this landscape at all. And yet fires have always been an ever present reality in the Australian bush. Most fires (despite the concerning few that are lit by arsonists) start through lightning strikes.
Never mind Nature, she can look after herself. It's often when we try to interfere that we create drastic unintended consequences.
** [If you enlarge this photograph it's amazing what you can find. I have tagged an unlikely shy little creature, a Bennetts Wallaby. Can you see it too? I had no idea until I came to processing the shot. Sadly many of these little creatures did perish in the fires. But again, how reassuring to see them about in this landscape again.]