Bootleg Fire, Black Hills (IMAGE)

USDA Forest Service - Rocky Mountain Research Station

Bootleg Fire, Black Hills

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Tree thinning-only treatments are less effective at reducing wildfire severity than treatments that also address surface fuels. Photo shows the aftermath of Oregon’s 2021 Bootleg Fire burning through a mixed conifer forest where the Klamath Tribes had worked with the US Forest Service to thin trees and apply prescribed fire. In some areas, prescribed fire had not been applied yet. Thinning only was not as effective at reducing wildfire severity as combining thinning with prescribed fire.

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Steve Rondeau (photographer), Klamath Tribes Natural Resources Director.

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