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Originally Posted by Scott h
I spent yesterday afternoon out looking over a large fuel reduction area in the BC interior. The end product was a beautiful area with mostly the largest, healthiest trees left, tons of browse for the mule and whitetails in the area, and a much safer area fire wise. The area was a just a continuation of a couple of big areas they did last winter as well. It sounds like they finally are getting their act together and hiring staff to thin all winter, and then work the fires when needed in the summer. Expensive, but after decades of crappy logging practices it needs to be done. The sites were full of deer due I assume to the vastly improved browse situation, interspersed with tons of mature cover.
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