Tahoe forest thinning & mastication along w controlled fire over many years caused "miracle" in Caldor "ought to be done" more places- Tribune Dec 26 article linked here, Heating Planet blog

'When he walked the area after the fire was put out, he saw obvious patterns tied to fuel treatment... Safford and Saberi found that mechanical and hand thinning of areas over several years, followed by mastication, which processes trees into chips, was most effective fuel treatment.... “With any type of forest treatment, doing it in a repeated fashion, not a one and done, is what’s really important.”.... “You really need to mix mechanical, hand, and fire as treatments in order to properly treat the fuels, the canopy fuels, the ladder fuels and the service fuels,” ... the same work that reduces fuels and fire impacts is also largely restorative,” said Safford. It creates better species diversity, healthier ecological function, and tree survival through droughts, insect outbreaks and wildfires. “This kind of work really should be done in much more than the Tahoe Basin.... The choice we have is whether we use fire or fire surrogates proactively or whether we allow severe and uncontrolled burning to define our future.” '

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