Survivors: Tales from a Forest

Silhouettes of surviving trees from the fire of 2022 in the Bessey Ranger District of Nebraska National Forest.
The survivors of the Sandhills of Nebraska. 

These are the survivors from a big experiment that became the largest human-planted forest in the United States. An overturned vehicle sparked a fire in 2022. The accident killed a quarter of the trees. All happened in the Bessey Ranger District of Nebraska National Forest (I hiked there in September 2024).