The Flickr Quercusoleoides Image Generatr

On 28 March 2023 a wildfire started on a windy day where a ministry of works was repairing a slump in the George Price Highway. It burned 5 square miles of savanna and pine-oak woodland on The Sharon Matola Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahogany Heights neighborhood. The Belize Zoo staff and the Maya Forest Corridor Fire Working Group fought the fire for 2-days before it was finally contained.

parasitic vine on Quercus oleoides

parasitic vine on Quercus oleoides

parasitic vine on Quercus oleoides

Parasitised oak branch removed from host for photographs. Note the brown dessicated leaves are Quercus oleoides

Sue ___ property, near the old JB's

Sue ___ property, near the old JB's

2011-07-22 TEC-3826 Quercus oleoides several months after fire Several months after post-hurricane wildfire - E.P. Mallory

2011 A large Quercus oleoides on the long Transition Forest trail. Several months after post-hurricane Richard wildfire.

Charred bark after burned in wildfire; Long Trail between Access Road & cut property line. Oak bark does not burn easily because it evolved in environments subject to frequent fires. If fire is not too intense or linger too long around the trunk, the living tissues under the charred "cork" layer will be protected.

2012-02-20 TEC Savanna-0229 Pine-dominated lowland savanna - E.P. Mallory

The TEC property line, just south of Long Trail, looking south toward TEC buildings. It could have been a useful break in the woodland vegetation where a wildfire might have been stopped, but the there was too much burnable woody debris after the hurricane.

2018-03-30 TEC-2949 One year after fire this mature Pinus caribaea appears healthy. - E.P. Mallory

Quercus oleoides tree (middle) among Pinus caribaea var hondurensis in a Pine-Oak woodland along TEC's Transition Forest Trail.

2013-07-11 TEC-013