Video: Coast redwoods showing regrowth in Big Basin Redwoods State Park

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Hi I’m Paul Ringgold I’m with Save the Redwoods
League and we’re here at Little Basin which is

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part of Big Basin State Park and we wanted
to point out some of the what’s the recovery

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that’s happening in the coast redwood
this is on the edge of the burned area

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the facility itself was completely destroyed
but of course you can see that the forest

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is already recovering this is again due to the
prolific ability of coast redwood to re-sprout

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and these sprouts are basically happening
through little buds called epicormic buds

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that are throughout the… just at the edge of
the bark and the cambium in redwood that lie

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dormant until there’s some event that triggers
them to sprout that can be a severe drought

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oftentimes you’ll see this happening when the when
the tree is responding to a really significant

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stress fire is a classic example of that the
stress of the fire the fact that all of the living

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foliage on the tree was destroyed prompted
signals were sent to these epicormics to sprout

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put new green shoots and leaves back out onto the
trees so that it can continue to photosynthesize

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and continue to survive so these trees I would
say there’s just there’s no doubt that these

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trees will survive based on the prolific
sprouts that you see throughout the trunk

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out onto the branches in some cases see some
of these trees you can see the leaves were not

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the needles were not completely burned off
in the fire they were singed but killed but

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you can already see the green sprouts
coming out underneath them in the foliage

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looking out into the meadow here you can see same
thing happening on those trees in the distance

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it’s very typical in coast redwood after
what would otherwise be referred to as

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a stand replacement fire where all of
the above ground vegetation is killed

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in coast redwood you see these sort of a bottle
brush type of form happening with all of the

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epicormic sprouting that’s happening