>>8113297 pb evergreens thrive after fire
"Despite their susceptibility to fires, many conifers actually depend on such ecological disturbance for regeneration. In such fire-dependent forests (including giant sequoia groves, Douglas fir forests, boreal forests, low latitude pine forests, and Australian cypress pine woodlands), the dominant conifers are unable to regenerate among the more shade-tolerant species that grow up around them with time. Fires clear the understory to bare soil, stimulating the germination and establishment of seeds. Most of those species have cones that protect the seeds from the worst of the fire and then open to scatter them on the ash-fertilized seed bed."