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XemaSab

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15. I did bird surveys up in Oregon a year after a HUGE forest fire there

Reply to former9thward (Reply #13)

Sun Jul 1, 2012, 05:41 PM

Jul 2012

(the Biscuit fire).

Based on what I saw there, regenerating clearcuts were the areas that looked like the surface of the moon. There was nothing left.

Areas that had been brushy with manzanitas were resprouting readily.

Second growth forest was burned pretty heavily, but there was a lot of standing dead timber and there were some trees that were still alive.

The oldest stuff? You couldn't tell that there had been a fire there.

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

Turning national forests into tree farms for lumber corporations hasn't helped, either... villager Jul 2012 #1

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

Drought would have to be a primary culprit along with an earlier spring and earlier byeya Jul 2012 #4

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

If you don't cut and maintain fire breaks, and you don't remove old trees and snags, this results. FarCenter Jul 2012 #14

Old trees and snags provide shelter for many bird and mammal species. byeya Jul 2012 #16

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