What's your opinion, Dirk -
When - not "If", WHEN - there is a major conflagration in southern Colorado (say from Wolf Creek Pass all the way down to Cumbres Pass and well into northern New Mexico) and the already dead pine forests are essentially converted to charcoal and ash, what will happen to the aspen? I have read that aspen are in serious decline throughout the Rocky Mountain west - will they be healthy enough to eventually fill in the areas that are currently mostly pine, or have things changed so much that this will not happen as quickly as it did 100 to 150 years ago, if at all?
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