One of the most-apocalyptic images from California latest round of fires is flames glowing from inside a tree trunk inside California’s first state park. It seems outlandish, even demonic.

In fact, it’s so routine that there’s a name for the hollow space a fire leaves in the base of a coastal redwood: a goose pen. Early…

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