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profdant139
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Sep 04, 2019

Seeking expert opinion: thinning vs prescribed burns

Almost all of us on this forum are avid users of the national forests. Some of us favor extensive logging. Some of us don't want the forest altered in any way. I understand both of those positions....
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Tom_Barb
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Sep 05, 2019
valhalla360 wrote:
If there were no forest fires before man, did pines only come into existence when man started forest fires?

Fire has always been here, and is a part of mother nature's way. Only her way the fire never plumbs thru the forest canopy. It creeps along the forest floor, doing what mother intended.

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