Day: September 18, 2017

Restoring Arizonas Forests Digital Restoration Guide
Restoring Arizona’s Forests Digital Restoration Guide

on September 18, 2017 by comment 0 category Cutting Edge Technologies

NEIL CHAPMAN The Nature Conservancy is working to accelerate the pace and scale of forest restoration within the 2.4 million acre Four Forest Restoration Initiative. Implementation bottlenecks include the low value of small-diameter wood and associated biomass and the tentative social acceptance of large-scale treatments. The Digital Restoration Guide, an integration of existing and emerging...
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Prescribed Fire at Scale

on September 18, 2017 by comment 0 category Managing Fire

DANA SKELLY The Malheur National Forest, at the southern edge of the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon, is dominated by forest types which historically had very frequent, low-severity fires. Current research shows a fire return interval of 12-28 years even in moist mixed conifer stands. Dry forest types account for approximately 1 million acres on...
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