Forest exhibits resilience after California mega fire

Phys.org

March 4, 2026

In 2019 and again in 2021, Penn State researchers in the Department of Geography walked a series of 1,000 square foot plots in California's Lassen Volcanic National Park. The goal was to see how the forest that's hands-off to residents and most fire-suppression measures had recovered—or not—from naturally occurring forest fires as far back as the mid-1980s.