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After the Wildfire: Ten Years of Recovery from the Willow Fire

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Swallowtail butterflies frolic on the wind. Vireos and rock wrens sing their hearts out by the recovering creek. Spiders and other predators chase their next meal. Through it all, John Alcock observes, records, and delights in what he sees. In a once-burnt area, life resurges. Plants whose seeds and roots withstood an intense fire turn out to be habitat for the returning creatures of the wild. After the Wildfire describes the remarkable recovery of flora and fauna within the Mazatzal Mountains in central Arizona.

It is the rare observer who has the dedication to revisit the web site of a wildfire, especially over many years and seasons. But naturalist John Alcock returned over and over again to the Mazatzals, where the disastrous Willow fire of 2004 burned 187 square miles. Documenting the fire’s aftermath over a decade, Alcock thrills on the renewal of the once-blackened region. Walking the South Fork of Deer Creek in all seasons as the years passed, he used to be rewarded by the sight of exuberant plant life that in turn fostered an equally satisfying return of animals ranging from small insects to large mammals.

Alcock clearly explains the response of chaparral plants to fire and the creatures that reinhabit these plants as they come back from a ferocious blaze: the great spreadwing damselfly, the western meadowlark, the elk, and birds and bugs of wealthy and colorful varieties. This book is at once a journey of biological discovery and a celebration of the ability of living things to reoccupy a devastated location. Alcock encourages others to engage the flora and fauna—even one that has burnt to the ground.


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