Mechanical thinning alone can calm the intensity of future wildfires for many years, and prescribed burns lengthen thinning's effectiveness, according to Oregon State University research involving a ...

Thinning, the practice of removing some trees to promote the growth of others, is a common forestry management technique, but its effects on forest carbon dynamics vary greatly depending on the forest ...

A new study from the U.S. Forest Service concludes extensive forest-thinning treatments are the most effective way to reduce intense wildfires in the western United States. Every summer, crown fires ...

Strategic forest thinning is underway north of Payson in an effort by SRP, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management (DFFM), and other partners to prevent ...

Chad Hanson is an ecologist with the John Muir Project and the author of Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate (University Press Kentucky, May 2021). Earlier this ...

LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team forest thinning projects are scheduled to continue for the next several weeks, conditions and weather permitting. Some projects are expected to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... EVERGREEN — Trunks and logs lie askew, fresh-cut stumps dot the landscape and dozens of piles of ponderosa branches, browned and desiccated, sit on the ...

Mechanical thinning alone can calm the intensity of future wildfires for many years, and prescribed burns lengthen thinning's effectiveness. Mechanical thinning alone can calm the intensity of future ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KTVZ) – Mechanical thinning alone can calm the intensity of future wildfires for many years, and prescribed burns lengthen thinning’s effectiveness, according to Oregon State ...