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Going digital

Image shows a section of forest treated using the digital method, showing a much more sparsely wooded area than the surrounding, non-treated areas of forest.
An area treated using digital marking. Fewer trees, farther apart helps promote a healthy forest by reducing the amount of fuel for a potential wildfire. (Image courtesy of The Nature Conservancy) With a paint can in hand, a forester walks step by step through the dense Arizona ponderosa pine…
#MechanicalThinning, #Thinning, #FuelsTreatment, #TimberSales, #Timber, #CoconinoNationalForest, #WildfireRiskReduction, #FuelReduction

Saving historic Mount Wilson and crucial communications from Eaton Fire

Image shows three wildland firefighters on a ridgeline with the sun setting behind them and the sky is orange with smoke from the Eaton wildfire.
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#PrescribedFire, #WildlandFirefighters, #HazardousFuels, #FuelReduction

Where the city meets the forest

Tops of trees as look down on small homes tucked in a valley.
Los Angeles skyline with the Angeles National Forest in the background. (USDA Forest Service photo by Andrew Avitt) Editor’s note: The Forest Service, now in its second year of implementing its Wildfire Crisis Strategy, is treating 11 additional landscapes across the country to help reduce wildfire risk to communities. Combined with the initial 10…
#California, #FuelReduction, #ConfrontingTheWildfireCrisis, #Landscapes

Reducing wildfire risk and supporting rural economies

An aerial view of Lincoln County illustrates the heavily forested lands intermixed with homes and infrastructure.
This aerial view of Lincoln County illustrates the heavily forested lands intermixed with homes and infrastructure. (USDA Forest Service photo) Lincoln County Montana is a beautiful place. Heavily forested, with the Cabinet Mountains as a backdrop, the vistas are what draw people here.…
#Smoke, #RuralCommunities, #Landscapes, #PileBurning, #ConfrontingTheWildfireCrisis, #FuelReduction

Protecting the Stanislaus Landscape

A small waterfall in a part of a river known as Cleo's Bath.
Part of the National Recreation Trails system, the Pinecrest Lake loop is one of the premiere hiking trails in the state of California and the entry way to the sublime -- Cleo’s Bath. Follow the trail around to the sign for Cleo’s Bath, turn off the main trail and begin your ascent higher into the eastern the Sierra Nevada. (USDA Forest Service Photo by Benjamin Cossel). For many residents of…
#WildfireCrisisStrategy, #WildfirePrevention, #PrescribedFire, #FirePrevention, #FuelReduction

Prescribed burns restoring National Forests in Arkansas and Oklahoma to health

Prescribed fire burns the understory in a forest
Tufts of smoke from prescribed fires on the Ouachita and Ozark-St. Francis National Forests can be seen from a NOAA satellite image across Northwest Arkansas and East Oklahoma. When conducting prescribed burns wind direction is just one of many critical factors fire personnel consider to limit…
#PrescribedFire, #SharedStewardship, #ControlledBurn, #FuelReduction