What is Fire Rehabilitation?
You may ask yourself, What is fire rehabilitation, and why is it so important to rehabilitate areas that were burned?
This site is designed to help you better understand what goes on in the processes of rehabilitation and why rehabilitation is vital to our maintaining ecosystems.
Fire rehabilitation, on a national level, is very important. National policy states that it is in the best interest of the nation to rehabilitate burned forests and public lands.
Fire rehabilitation takes place in order to mitigate the adverse effects of fire on the soil-vegetation resource. Rehabilitation minimizes the recurrences of wildland fires and invasions of exotic weeds.
Shrub communities have great impacts on game animals and range animals. Shrub communities provide a well balanced diet for all wildlife, and small rodents use the shrubs for protection from desiccation as well as protection from predation. Birds and Rodents feed off the fruits and seeds of the shrubs, therefore rehabilitation is key to species survival.
All in all, rehabilitation of burned areas plays a vital role in the survival of pre-existing ecosystems. If rehabilitation does not occur, invasive weeds take over and herds of grazers, such as antelope and mule deer, become scarce. Fire rehabilitation is beneficial and keeps the biological communities thriving.
Fire destroys just about everything in its path. Rehabilitation of these burned areas helps restore the pre-existing conditions in order to better the existing or bring back the once existed ecosystems.
