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Western Australia: The Spring of Fire
In the bush of Western Australia a fire can burn for months and cover miles of territory. When it's finally extinguished, the scorched landscape appears lifeless. In reality, this land is about to bloom into a "spring of fire"--a floral show that happens the first spring after a fire and may never appear again. From Perth, one of the world's most remote cities, David Tarrant heads north into the bushland along the fire trail. The weather has not been good: It's too dry. Refusing to be deterred, he finds some amazing older burn sites that offer him a peek into the weird world of Australia's plants and the equally mysterious world of Australian wildlife. But when he reaches Eneabba and hooks up with the Crocodile Dundee of the plant world, Allen Tinker, he finally finds what he's been looking for. It's an eight-month-old site that's filled with the pinks and blues of new blooms and prehistoric palms black with soot. It's the epitome of the Western Australian "spring of fire."

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