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The papers keep coming indicating the artificial thinning vast areas of forest is a questionable practice and that high-severity fire in forests is not the disaster some claim. Over 40 years, habitat loss would be far greater than with no thinning because, under a “best case” scenario, thinning reduced 3.4 and 6.0 times more dense, late-successional forest than it prevented from burning in high-severity fire in the Klamath and dry Cascades, respectively. Odion, D.C., C.T. Hanson, D.A. DellaSala, W.L. Baker, M.L. Bond. 2014. Effects of fire and commercial thinning on future habitat of the northern spotted owl. The Open Ecology Journal 7: 37-51. californiachaparral.org/images/Odion_et_al_TOEJ_thinning_and_spotted_owls_2014.pdf
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 18:53:58 +0000

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