Pete Oxford / Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) forest after fire showing barren understory, Georgia

Richard Herrmann / Death Camas (Zigadenus sp) flowering with burned Toyon (Heteromeles sp) behind, San Diego, California

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Wheat (Triticum sp) fields ploughed and burned after harvest, Palouse Hills, Washington

Michael Quinton / Yellowstone fire, path of forest fire on wooded mountainside, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Michael Quinton / Yellowstone fire, severely burned forest, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) showing fire damage, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California

Pete Oxford / Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) seedling after prescribed burn, Georgia

Gerry Ellis / Deer Plateau after 1990 forest burn scar near Blackmail, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming