Sugar Pine SNPLMA Round 14 Hazardous Fuel Reduction

This project included forest thinning with hand crews and prescribed fire to reduce hazardous fuels and enhance residual tree species health. This project was designed to reduce tree densities in order to modify fire behavior to reduce the potential for a catastrophic, stand replacement fire. Forest thinning by hand crews reduced ladder fuels, overcrowded/diseased trees and enhance forest health. Thinned trees and dead and downed woody debris were piled throughout the spring, summer and fall months and burned in the fall/winter.