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14. If you don't cut and maintain fire breaks, and you don't remove old trees and snags, this results.

Sun Jul 1, 2012, 05:04 PM

Jul 2012

Poor forestry practices result in larger fires covering more square miles.

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Western wildfires are getting worse. Why? [View all] Are_grits_groceries Jul 2012 OP

How has it hurt? former9thward Jul 2012 #2

But a monoculture is a monoculture villager Jul 2012 #6

That's... not true that most federal timberland is in the east XemaSab Jul 2012 #10

Argue with the federal government. former9thward Jul 2012 #12

That 70% isn't "federal" timberlands pscot Jul 2012 #11

The U.S. timberland is a mixure between private and federal lands. former9thward Jul 2012 #13

I did bird surveys up in Oregon a year after a HUGE forest fire there XemaSab Jul 2012 #15

+1 villager Jul 2012 #19

I wouldn't argue that tree farms are inherently more fire-prone pscot Jul 2012 #17

+1 freshwest Jul 2012 #3

And it's summer! zappaman Jul 2012 #5

Some of those homes looked new too tawadi Jul 2012 #7

Check this site out tawadi Jul 2012 #8

Drought combined with heat combined with the difficulty of regrowth... joshcryer Jul 2012 #9

a century of fire suppression has led to this situation.... mike_c Jul 2012 #18