steelhunter wrote:
profdant139 wrote:
tom and barb and steelhunter, if you both are logging professionals, do you have specific opinions about thinning versus prescribed burns?
To put it another way, what's past is past -- clearly, total fire prevention did not work. And clear-cutting does prevent fires, but it is a pretty extreme remedy. So that is why I am trying to evaluate the various middle-ground solutions. I am guessing that the answer is not so simple.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
Both methods have a place in managing timber areas. It depends on a variety of factors.
With that I'll agree, there are many tools in the forest management tool box than just one thing or two.
In the project we did in the Okanogan national forest in the 70s and 80s we thinned where needed, limbed up as required, and did the control burns to clear all slash off the forest floor.
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