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| This site, about 1.5 km from the Cliff Top Regeneration Plot, is a pasture that was cleared of its forest about 1945, and then allowed to regenerate as has happened with the CTRP. This forest is 40 years old and the canopy is 15-25 m tall. It is still highly deciduous in the dry season, as the evergreen species have not yet invaded the site. If a litter fire is introduced into a site like this, on a hot dry afternoon it may burn for a while through the litter, but it will go out in the evening as the air cools and the humidity rises. But, the damage done by it will mean more fuel for the next fire in the next dry season, and if this process continues, within 5-8 successive fires, the site will be reduced to grass with a few woody stump sprouts. | ||
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