River Wey & Navigations : the devastation of the Thursley Nature reserve Fire 2006

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	#7585/06 ©2006		#7632/06 ©2006 Saving the day, one of the bulldozers used during the fire to clear firebreaks suceeded in halting the spread of the flames, which were being fanned by strong winds.
	#7580/06 top #7584/06 bottom ©2006			#7592/06 ©2006 Literally no tree was spared within the area directly affected and yet from beneath the charred skeletons new growth is already beginning to take hold.
	#7630/06 ©2006		#7615/06 ©2006 Proving that 360 million years of propagation experience counts for a lot, the ubiquitous fern only one month on is already bagging space once the domain of hundreds of other plant species.
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