How does cutting branches and removing dead material help improve the health of the trees at CMR?
There are several positive effects of the prescribed fuel reduction protocol. Reducing the risk of a catastrophic wildfire, either starting on CMR or migrating into CMR from adjacent public lands, is obviously one positive element. Improving the safety and ability for fire teams to defend our homes, lodge and infrastructure from wildfire is another positive. Improving the health of our wooded areas and improving wildlife habitat are another, perhaps less obvious benefits. The prescribed treatment includes removing dead surface fuels and ladder fuels from among the trees, and some thinning/culling in more crowded evergreen stands. The prescribed activity has several positive effects but the more obvious include: (a) the host materials supporting the incubation and continued spread of woodland diseases (blister rust spores, etc.) and insect infestations are reduced, (b) as armoring surface cover is removed, the soil and duff layers roughed up, and the understory thinned, improvement to n
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