TPWD TV - PANHANDLE FIRES THEN AND NOW: Nature 
rebounds after a deadly fire ... on Passport to Texas.

Passport to Texas from Texas Parks and Wildlife

The Texas Panhandle suffered devastating fires in March 
2006. This month, a story by TPW TV series producer Don 
Cash, highlights the habitat and wildlife before and after 
the blaze. 

One of the places that burned during the panhandle fires was an 
area where I had shot a story three years earlier on lesser prairie 
chickens. So, I decided I would go and be able to compare before 
the fires, and went up a couple of weeks after the fires ... Trees, 
shrubs, uh, all the grass is gone. All cover. All habitat for all 
wildlife is at this point gone. For the most part the wildlife are on 
their own. And then went back a year after the fires. And so its 
sort of a look at how the habitat makes a very strong comeback 
after fires like this. These animals have living up here on the 
prairie for thousands and thousands of years. And this isn't their 
first fire. They'll come back, and they will all recover. When I went 
up there three weeks after the fire, there were some areas that 
were just sand, which - a month before - had been hip deep in 
grasses. They had had a little bit of rain a week after the fires, 
and there was already plants starting to poke through four or five 
inches of sand that quickly. So, the land is very resilient. Nature 
does a good job of brining itself back. 1:04 

Thanks, Don. Visit passporttotexas.org for a complete 
listing of stations airing the series.

That's our show for today...for Texas Parks and 
Wildlife...I'm Cecilia Nasti.












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