<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; width: 784px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0in;"><h2 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 18pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(24, 24, 24);">Would You Remove Wood after Pacific Northwest Wildfires?<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Removing dead wood from forests post-fire can reduce future fire intensity and boost timber yields\u2014but that same dead wood also shelters many wildlife species when left where it lies. That\u2019s why agency scientists built a <a href="https://click.news.fs.usda.gov/?qs=dbbe5b2edcebdc6e3f0c62548e8b4663f20044d9e200548aafa0ce810140f793ef273e2a523bf3bd62fbb0f8f02b470ebf201d37571425f50ff8b326b853560a" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.news.fs.usda.gov/?qs%3Ddbbe5b2edcebdc6e3f0c62548e8b4663f20044d9e200548aafa0ce810140f793ef273e2a523bf3bd62fbb0f8f02b470ebf201d37571425f50ff8b326b853560a&source=gmail&ust=1766166120621000&usg=AOvVaw2q_h2npq7ZtKTF9AIKzoi_" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 223);">model of post-fire recovery </span></a>to help guide wood removals in highly productive Pacific Northwest forests. These landscapes were once considered too wet for destructive fires\u2014an assumption challenged by recent upswings in fire intensity and frequency\u2014and excluded from past models. Study authors found that the benefits of keeping some dead wood as habitat persist for decades in these forests, while the benefits of removing dead wood to reduce fire hazard expire quickly. Study authors stress that managers must consider many factors, including weather, changes in live vegetation, and non-fire disturbances, when removing wood.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div>
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