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Show number 137: Bad Fire, Good Fire

The forest near the top of Hobbs Road. Look carefully through the trees, bent over by the heat of the fire, to see Booze lake, where the fire originated.	Some pine trees aren't going to make it.	This tree, girdled by fire, probably won't survive.
A black stick forest of charcoaled chemise.	Some chemise burned even hotter, leaving only tiny stumps.	Side by side, the chemise-covered hillside burned hotter than the tree and grass covered ridge top.
The invisible remains of a tall pine tree.	Ranger John Verhoven stands next to the remains of a gray pine.	Chemise regrows from fire-triggered seeds.
Chemise also regrows from the roots of burned plants.	A "quadrat" where Winslow Briggs is measuring regrowth.	The fire burned through here in September, but you'd hardly notice on this April day.