Mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnens), the world’s tallest flowering plant, is a fire-sensitive obligate seeder, meaning the trees are killed by fire and cannot resprout; instead, they reproduce after a fire’s heat stimulates their fruits to release seed. Those seeds take up to 20 years to mature into trees that can produce more seed. This regeneration...

Where fire poses a direct threat to species such as mountain ash, and where current approaches to fire management are questionable, research is building greater fire resilience into restored landscapes through “climate-adjusted provenancing” — introducing genetically suitable seeds and seedlings better adapted to surviving future climate change sce...

Beyond tree planting, there are also new post-Black Summer calls for better integrated forested management to increase fire resilience and create more sustainable woodland systems. One advocate for this integrated approach is David Bowman, professor of pyrogeography and fire science at the University of Tasmania. “I see [post-fire restoration] as a...