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Yesterday I climbed 1,519 feet to view Pravcice Gate, a natural rock arch in Hřensko, Czech Republic in the Bohemian Switzerland National Park and - being ignorant of recent natural history in this area - was noticing a lot of dead trees on the climb. At first, they just looked denuded of branches, some still a grey white in their trunk, but then I began to see all the black and charred ones. In 2022 there was an extensive forest fire in this area, burning for nearly three weeks. These trees were evidence of how air can be a powerful weapon in spreading destruction even into rocky places. This image is taken from the arch and looks across the landscape into the Czech Republic. In the top third, in the far distance against a stormy grey cloudscape there is an isolated peak, just left of centre, surrounded by lush and mature trees. In the lower third, from this vantage point, we look down on a green tree top in the right corner, and on the left to an outcrop of some mighty rock crags - plentiful this region. The trees, on the rock promontory, bear leafless limbs creating, at this distance, an illusion of soft, upright feathers. In the wide, middle ‘third’, we see soft, rolling hills, covered with new, even vegetation - like a phoenix coming back to life. But - standing sentinel in this new growth are thousands of grey and black tree spars towering above, like spines in defiance of the raging fires that swept through. The new growth at the bases of these spars appears like a green carpet in an inspiring reminder that life goes on.
June 13, 2026 at 12:08 PM