With logging comes access and the ability to get to a fire. During the process, slash is dealt with in one form or another. In this area, single tree selection is done with a precription that enhances age/size mix. We manage the land to prevent wildfire as well. Please find me anyone who wants his/her investment to go up in smoke. Also, ask any fire fighter whether they’d rather fight a ground fire or a crown fire. Separation helps.
With logging comes access and the ability to get to a fire.”””
Under Clinton, Bruce Babbitt started & implemented the “Roadless” policy in our national lands.
They deliberately put up hundreds of heavy gates —( I worked for a welder who made plenty of them)—and they dug deep holes in the existing roads that could swallow a fie truck.
They won’t let fire fighting equipment inside those areas or salvage logging.
If you can get a permit to salvage log, you must do it with horses.
The Roadless policies of Clinton & Babbitt have added greatly to the cost of fires in the USA.