Dead wood helps to balance habitats and manage wildfires

ENN
Feb 11, 2015, 4:42 pm151 pts
Healthy forest ecosystems need dead wood to provide important habitat for birds and mammals, but there can be too much of a good thing when dead wood fuels severe wildfires. A scientist with the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW) compared historic and recent data from a forest in…

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