Two fires hit this area, the Bastrop County Complex fire in 2011, and the Lone Pines fire in 2015. Most of the trails I ran on covered land devastated by the Bastrop County Complex Fire.
A placard at one trail head said that the loblolly pines had been growing in the area for 18K years.
You can already see new growth. Some of these young trees are already ten feet tall.
Isolated stands of pines stand tall. In a few years they will be surrounded by younger growth.
About a mile and a half in on the purple trail you reach a thick line of deciduous trees that survived the fire.
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