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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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ppine
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Sep 07, 2019
The forests best known for being open with room to ride through, are the ponderosa pine forests of the Intermountain West. Ppine is my specialty. It is a fire adapted species and the historical density of trees in those forests was around 50-75 trees per acre. Now due to neglect we have 200-600 stems or more per acre. That has a lot to do with the current megafires.

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