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After the Fire
On a winter day last February, it was standing room only in the Medford, Oregon, city hall. The attraction was a congressional hearing on salvage logging after wildfire, and so many people wanted to...
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The Biscuit Fire 10 Years Later
Riparian vegetation has adapted to disturbances and flooding fairly quickly in its recovery after the fire. (Photo: Jessica Halofsky). The 2002 Biscuit Fire not only torched a half-million acres in...
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Forests at Risk
“The margin between life and death in the forest can be rather small,” says Oregon State climate scientist Philip Mote. As wildfires widen, insects invade and drought deepens, the razor-thin margin for...
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High Noon for Forest Fires
Ground fire behavior in an open Ponderosa pine stand. (Photo: Kari Greer. Courtesy of the Northern Rockies Incident Information Center.) Decades of fire suppression have put the Ponderosa pine forests...
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After the Fire
On a winter day last February, it was standing room only in the Medford, Oregon, city hall. The attraction was a congressional hearing on salvage logging after wildfire, and so many people wanted to...
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The Biscuit Fire 10 Years Later
Riparian vegetation has adapted to disturbances and flooding fairly quickly in its recovery after the fire. (Photo: Jessica Halofsky). The 2002 Biscuit Fire not only torched a half-million acres in...
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Forests at Risk
“The margin between life and death in the forest can be rather small,” says Oregon State climate scientist Philip Mote. As wildfires widen, insects invade and drought deepens, the razor-thin margin for...
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High Noon for Forest Fires
Ground fire behavior in an open Ponderosa pine stand. (Photo: Kari Greer. Courtesy of the Northern Rockies Incident Information Center.) Decades of fire suppression have put the Ponderosa pine forests...
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The Tao of Forest Management
By Thomas Maness, Cheryl Ramberg-Ford and Allyn C. Ford Dean, College of Forestry When it comes to proper management of our public forests, some would like to take a page from the ancient Chinese...
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Living with Fire
“In simplest terms, fire exists because the Earth holds life. Life pumped the atmosphere with oxygen. Life lathered the land with hydrocarbons. The chemistry of combustion is among life’s most...
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