This year’s wildfire season in Canada is on track to destroy four times more land than any previous year on record, but researchers say nature is resilient and regeneration is still possible. Understory plants are already rising up through the barren landscapes and charred trees of the aftermath. That’s because fire is part of the natural cycle and vegetation can grow back very quickly, says Edward Struzik, author of Dark Days at Noon: The Future of Fire. “It’s a natural process because really our forest — the boreal forest — is born to burn,” he said. …Regrowth will happen, but forests will change. Ellen Whitman, a forest fire research scientist with Natural Resources Canada… suspects more fire-resilient vegetation will take the place of conifer trees with needle leaves and cones. …”But if we have that particular shift, you can think about some species benefiting and some species not doing so well.”