WHY WE NEED TO REPLANT FORESTS AFTER WILDFIRES
Natural reforestation can occur in some situations such as fires of lower severity where live “seed trees” remain in the mosaic or there remain viable seeds in the seed bed. But where burns are severe, and all the trees are killed, tree crowns are burned, and seeds in the soil are burned, leaving no seed […]
Why Communities For Healthy Forests Supports Salvage Logging on Public Lands
Salvage logging followed by reforestation increases the probability that our forests remain as forests after the fires are out. By CHF Board Member Mark Buckbee | Communities For Healthy Forests | July 27th, 2022 Communities For Healthy Forests supports post-fire salvage logging on public forestlands. After wildfires, forests on public lands are evaluated for salvage logging. […]