I am a big believer in controlled burns. Not saying .gov does it right all the time. Last summer my tree farm burned up. All the places I had thinned and piled and burned were OK less that 10% mortality. The places I didn't get to were incinerated.
My 2 neighbors, the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) and the USFS (US Forest Service) had varying degrees of management done. The USFS is where the fire originated and they had done ZERO fuels management. The reason? It was an old growth area and they didn't want to cut any trees for wildlife retention. The stands were full of bugs with dead trees everywhere. When iit caught on fire it was biblical. Next door the BLM had done prescribed burns, thinned and piled and logged. When the fire came off USFS onto BLM it went from stand replacement fire to a nice underburn.
The forest service there now has no old growth and all the old growth dependent species of animals are gone here. Their lack of management is responsible. They could have selectively logged and done fuels treatment and enhanced the old growth. Making sure the old growth was there for years and years. The environmental law passed by congress are destroying the forests.
Logged , piled, burned,planted in 1980. Thinned, piled and burned in 2016.
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No thinning or burning.
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The green in the background is on BLM where they did fuels treatments.
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