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    FROM THE FLAMES

    Dec 22, 2019 3 minutes
    Words Michael Hayward
    Images Henry Jaine & Digby Shaw

    Some forests need regular fires to regenerate. Some trees will not flower unless they have been burned; others need flames to open their cones or buds to release seeds.

    The pine plantations around Nelson are not those sorts of trees. So when a huge fire broke out in the Pigeon Valley on February 5, 2019, quickly growing to be the largest the country had seen since 1955, it was a disaster—and

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