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SANTA ROSA — Host, Sarah Rutan: If your landscape was damaged by the recent North Bay Fires, you’ll want to get a professional’s insight on what to do moving forward. Today we’re in Santa Rosa with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Linda Gottuso-Guay of Manzanita Landscape Construction to learn more.
Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Linda Gottuso-Guay: Hi. I’m here to discuss all the severe fires that we had in Napa and Sonoma Counties. A lot of us lost our landscaping, our beautiful woodlands. And I want to offer some hope to how this can be reversed – and how it will be reversed, just by nature itself. A lot of our critters in the woodlands were either burrowing, or flying away, or ran away. They can smell the fire coming from miles. And they hid themselves very well. Now you’re going to see  them come out.
We’re also going to get some new critters. We’re also going to get some new insects. They’re going to come and want to eat that dead wood.  This is what they do. They’re going to come in from all over. They’re going to eat things. They’re going to get nice and fat. Other critters are going to eat them, and other birds are going to come in – different species that we don’t even have, that we didn’t have around here, you’re going to see come in. That’s just the evolution of life and the cycle of life.
Some of the large trees that you see are singed and stressed out will probably also come back. Most likely, their roots have been spared and saved. Especially now that we’re going to get the winter rains, that will help them and rejuvenate them. This is also the same for your home landscaping. Don’t take down those trees until you’re absolutely sure it’s gone – completely gone. There’s a cambium layer that you can scrap apart. And if you see any green or any light, that’ll come back. With some judicious pruning and trimming, we can save a lot of things for you.
So, don’t tear out your landscaping quite yet. Let’s see what happens over the winter and the new growth for spring. I’m looking forward to getting our beautiful topography back in Sonoma and Napa Counties. I have every bit of faith that it will. This fire burnt out the underbrush and the growth. Now we’re going to see the native plants come back; now we’re giving them light to the forest ground. We’re going to see our native plants come back. This isn’t all bad; there’s a lot of hope; a lot of rejuvenation; and a lot of rebirth that’s going to happen in these forests. And you’ll see it over the next year or two. It’ll happen quicker than you think. Take care.
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Tim Little, Construction Superintendent {BR} Heather Little, President/Lead Designer of Manzanita Landscape Construction, Inc., a Diamond Certified company, goes over if your landscape was damaged by the recent North Bay Fires, you?ll want to get a professional?s insight on what to do moving forward.

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