The bioremediation is used for recovery contaminated lands, but is possible recover a land burned?
Bacterias that use carbonized matter?
Maybe is a crazy idea...
Yes, various natural to applied measures may be used to help burned lands from wildfires or escaped fires recover. You may find some of the methods recommended in various reports and manuals by US Forest Service on Burned Area Emergency Response on the internet. Areas with severe burns on steep lands are likely the most difficult to recover. If interested, I put a few of the BAER training powerpoints on researchgate that summarizes some of the assessment measures we used. Some measures such as drainage dips mulch and suitable annual seed covers are often needed to address emergency firelines.
Yes burned land can be made useful and good literature available in this regard.
I am critical to the answers above. Burned land in a critical climatic zone. It can be usefull for some impact, but some organism can easily be lost.
Burned land is not necessarily bad-land that has to be 'recovered'. Wildfires are an ecosystem component in many woods for millennia and consequently recover spontaneously. After two years the scar is indistinguishable on imagery. An example are Mediterranean evergreen oak woods in the same area as the burned beech forest and pine plantations (attached). On the latter, recovery of pine is not desirable in the national park. Instead, deliberately spontaneous development can takes its course.
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Yes, the burned land is easy to put back in production if has not been under fire like a KILN area. In Kiln soil every aspect/property of soil is lost. But we observe soils under wild and forest fires get recovered soon. Of course microbiology get damaged (but not lost for ever) that will need some management. I stand to practices for good crop husbandry will help soil to become rich in microbes within a short span of time.
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