[palmer]

There are the two basic options: burn the brush and overgrowth or remove / grind it up with machines. Burning is cheaper. But the burns are riskier. No doubt a controlled burn can go through a burn-managed forest and stop at his mechanically managed forest.

Would be interesting to know how many trees survived in the burned forest. Forests that are burned often enough have fireproof trees for the most part.

Here in Virginia I only have five acres and I have to do mechanical clearing. I have to take out underbrush by hand (or hire someone with various machines), then pile it up and burn it. Or I have chipped it, all of it, even large cedar, with a giant rented chipper.

[CodeToad]

People who advocate for mechanized deforestation are the ones who own the machines.

Only a child would not understand that there are millions of forest acres in the US and the cost to clear them is in the trillions of dollars each year.

The forests did just fine before man ever stepped foot in them.