What grew back? Revisiting the bush after Ash Wednesday

Key points

• A plant study begun after the Ash Wednesday bushfires will be revisited to track how bushland around Anglesea and Aireys Inlet has recovered. Angair will survey the original plots this spring and next year.
• The fires burnt 41,000 hectares across the Otways region in February 1983. The original decade-long volunteer project recorded which plants grew back in affected areas.
• Angair is seeking volunteers for site visits on 26, 27 and 30 October who can identify at least 80 per cent of likely plants.