Not all forest fires as bad. We need fire to manage our forests sustainability for the future. Fire in forests can have renewing and very positive effects on a decadent overly dense forest or it can have disastrous damaging effects if the weather and soil moisture is low when the fire occurs. Fire can also be a management tool to help in clearing out brush in order to facilitate reforestation of harvested areas.

Articles:

• Salvage Logging Can Restore Forest Health- by Barte Starker, vice president of Starker Forests, Inc.
• Homework from Season of Wildfires- by Robert Landauer, editorial columnist for the Oregonian