California's Big Basin Redwoods state park is home to an estimated 4,400 acres (1,780 hectares) of old-growth redwood trees. With a lifespan of more than 2,000 years, they are some of the oldest living things on Earth. After forest fires ravaged the state park 10 months ago ,there are signs of rebirth, as birds return, wildflowers bloom and trees sprout new growth in the midst of the charred landscape. "There's some of that loss of the big trees that makes it such a special forest. But we have opened up places for the next generation of big tress to grow," Joanne Kerbavaz, a senior environmental scientist with California State Parks, told the Guardian. "It will be beautiful again -- even if not as you remember it," she said.

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