human
Please generate a brief description of a dreary wilderness setting with a shattered spruce and several other fire-blackened trees.
assistant
A charred and shattered spruce lies in a broken heap surrounded by several other fire-blackened trees, evidence of a lightning strike. Periodic small wildfires help maintain the openness of the wood by clearing underbrush and encouraging growth of grasses and sedge. Already life is returning to the scorched area as a few tender new seedlings sprout from a mound of blackened earth.