COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Crews plan to plant the most trees at one time since revegetation began in areas burned by Colorado’s largest wildfire.
According to the Colorado Springs Gazette (), 150,000 Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir trees will be planted this month on land burned by the 2002 Hayman wildfire.
Seeds will be planted on 6,300 acres in Pike National Forest, where the fire began. Some 5,000 acres have begun to green up on their own, with some Ponderosa trees reaching two feet tall.
Seeding costs about $500 per acre. It will take at least 75 years before the pines planted this spring will have their own seeds.
The Hayman fire burned 138,000 acres, damaged 133 homes and lasted for several weeks. Work to revegetate the scorched land began in 2004.
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Information from: The Gazette,
