A photo taken after the 2019 Pigeon Valley Fires which shows the intact gully and valley floor of the Eves Valley Scenic Reserve, surrounded by burnt mixed beech forest. But beech trees required a fungi, that occurred on the roots systems of both of those species. Had the entire forest burnt it would have taken “hundreds and hundreds “of years to grow back to the same point, Chisnall said. While Eves Valley Reserve was “lucky” to have more flat ground than hills, that was no reason to be complacent amid forecasts of hotter, drier summers. However whole forests were destroyed there, whereas Eves Valley had intact forest – a seed source – left, Chisnall pointed out.

Source: Stuff January 13, 2021 03:11 UTC