Remote cameras capture life returning to Oregon forests after wildfire

Bloemers said he hopes people will see the beauty in his post-wildfire photography and start enjoying burned forests in new ways.
“I hope they will see it not as a destroyed thing but a young thing full of potential,” Bloemers said. “It’s like a charcoal forest. It’s black and gray and brown in the beginning, but it’s basically a blank canvas that nature will start to paint green, and the wildlife will come back.”

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