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profdant139
Explorer II
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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Naio
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Sep 06, 2019
I do see a lot of major fires in the western pnw, where the old growth forest looks like that. I see the fires in the young stands, which is 95% of the coastal forest now.

That is the point.

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