How would a tundra rebuild itself after a natural disaster or human disturbance?
It depends on what you mean by natural disaster. Global warming would actually help vegitation on a tundra but hurt the earth overall as it would release carbon from the soil.
2018: What did the town of Paradise, California, do to ensure that the community would be safe from the obvious threat of wildfire, and what wildfire planning, protection standards and fire risk preventive practices were enforced?
They ran a lot of on paper drills. We all knew this was coming, and following the 2008 fires (which almost destroyed the city), everyone got serious about fire protection all of a sudden. Here’s a link to their website Paradise Ridge Fire Safe Council. Anyways, they created evacuation routes, educated people on when to flee, and educated people on how to prepare themselves, their pets and houses for an eventual wildfire. If people didn’t have a vehicle, there were pre-planned spots for them to evacuate to and be bused of the hill. This is probably the best prepared city in mountainous rural CA for a wildfire to hit, and it still was decimated.Here’s the problems:In the city of Paradise, you needed permits to remove most types of large vegetation. Even when you removed it, there was no easy disposal location, and the Butte county air board doesn’t let you burn on poor air quality days. I was in Paradise around two weeks (13 days to be precise) before the fire started. Within one mile of the main road, there were residential streets so choked in by brush that I couldn’t pass other trucks.Defensible space was a joke around the city. Sure, some homeowners practiced it, but as a whole? I have friends up there who stopped counting at 180 pine trees on a .75 acre plot, and they were about halfway through the parcel when they quit counting. Let’s say you were actually able to get a permit to cut down the trees (Which was doable, it just took time), in many cases the permit was contingent upon you replacing those trees within 12 months.I never saw a solid evacuation plan for the care homes. A lot of people say one existed, but here’s the gig. When you need to get out with less than a 15 minute warning, and (throwing a totally useless number out there) you have three care workers for every ten patients, you can’t do it. That’s what happened here, is they only had a half hour in the best cases, and many people never even got the warning that something happened until they saw flames coming at them.