At the end of the article, “People assume the tally amounts to too many dead trees, but fire suppression has created unnaturally green forests with far too little wildfire and dead trees, said Chad Hanson, a forest ecologist at Earth Island Institute’s John Muir Project.”
“We don’t want too much and we don’t want too little,” he said. “This is not too much.”
This is a click bait type of article. They headline with what sounds like a terrible disaster, but they end with a statement that it is no big deal. And there is no good reason these trees couldn’t be harvested other than eco-madness.
Fire Regime Condition Class.
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