Last year I began fire mimicry treatments on several Ancestor oaks in Monterey, CA. Several of these oaks date from a time when the Ohlone Indians were the sole occupants of the land. As you can see the oaks are responding quite favorably to being tended. Note the change in greenness and lushness of the canopy leaves. It only took a few hours of work.
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Categories : Case studies, Fire mimicry, Monterey/Carmel, Native people, Oak health, Repeat photography
Video: What is fire mimicry?
13 07 2023Video by my friend Sean Corwin.
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Revival of sick oaks in Salinas, CA
4 07 2023In 2020, at the height of the COVID pandemic, I kept my focus on tending trees and began fire mimicry treatments on a grove of sick and diseased coast live oaks in Salinas, CA. Well here they are, three years later, flourishing! One diseased oak, however, did not survive despite a valiant recovery effort in the first year. Note also, in the final photo set, that the untreated (control) oak has died.
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Sick oaks in Aptos, CA making a recovery
2 07 2023Fours years ago I initiated fire mimicry treatments on a grove of sick and diseased coast live oaks in Aptos, CA. Many of these are “Ancestor” oaks, centuries-old trees that thrived under the care of the Ohlone People – living Native artifacts if you will. Sadly, one of these ancient oaks was too sick to be saved, and died in 2021.
The images here indicate that most of the oaks have responded favorably to the treatments as seen in the increase in foliage density and lushness. It still truly amazes me that a few hours of work once a year can make such a difference for an oak grove.
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Categories : Case studies, Fire mimicry, Oak health, Repeat photography, Santa Cruz, Sudden Oak Death
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