Why The Forest Must Burn
“After 15 years of massive and severe blazes that have blackened landscape and choked the community with smoke for weeks at a time, severely disrupting people’s lives and the local [...]
Bend Bulletin (2011): Why should we thin the Central Oregon Forest? Interview with John Allen.
John Allen, supervisor of the Deschutes National Forest, describes how thinning the forest west of Bend can lower the likelihood of major wild fire. Thinning project are underway as part of the Deschutes Collaborative Forest, in which the U.S. Forest Service is working with close to 40 other agencies, environmental and conservation groups and timber interests.
