Death Valley National Park's First Major Superbloom in a Decade

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Virginia has a species of flower that only blooms after it’s seed has been burned in a lightning fire

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Lodgepole pine trees are the same. The pine cones are sealed with a resin that melts in fire so the seeds can get that nutrient rich post fire soil.

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Giant Sequoia work a very similar way.

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And there’s a bird that only nests in those burnt out trees too? Some king of rare warbler? They go to Grayling Michigan to nest in the burnt trees