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Logging an area doesn’t necessarily decrease the fire danger. If you go to cut blocks in the PNW you’ll notice huge piles of slash in every cut block. There ar
by dghlsakjg 2y ago
Logging an area doesn’t necessarily decrease the fire danger. If you go to cut blocks in the PNW you’ll notice huge piles of slash in every cut block.
There are ways to log that do decrease fire risk, but generally those are not the techniques used in industrial logging since they are less profitable and tend to leave quite a few trees standing.
Here’s a good primer that lays out the basicshttps://davidsuzuki.org/expert-article/will-logging-more-in-healthy-forests-reduce-wildfire-risk/ https://davidsuzuki.org/expert-article/will-logging-more-in-...