From Heathy Spur Track looking towards Rocky Valley Storage dam and Falls Creek. This area of the Bogong High Plains was ravaged by bushfires in 2003 and 2006 and the endemic snow gums were burnt to ground level. You can see the white skeletons of the burnt snow gums in the distance. Some, like the one in the left foreground, are only now reshooting from lignotubers and via epicormic shoots. Repeated fires and poor climatic conditions slow the regeneration and many snow gums have been lost permanently leaving only stark white skeletons.
Excellent photo and very important your explanation. I think it is also essential that we use spaces like this 365 to show what is happening on our planet.
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Yes. We live on an impossibly beautiful planet. One of the things I like about photography is that it captures the beauty (sometimes hidden), the detail, even the ugliness and reminds us of what we have and what we can so easily lose. @antonios
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