Cone Fire Salvage Treatment -- 50 percent (IMAGE)

USDA Forest Service - Pacific Southwest Research Station

Cone Fire Salvage Treatment -- 50 percent

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Nearly 10 years after having half its trees removed in a salvage logging operation following the 2002 Cone Fire in California's Lassen National Forest, the amount and variety of naturally regenerated plant life in this stand of trees differed little from a similarly burned area that wasn't logged.

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Carl Skinner, US Forest Service

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