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Archive Home > 2007 > June > 09 > New forest plan reduces fire risk

New forest plan reduces fire risk

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
June 9, 2007

In the mixed-conifer forest west of La Pine, the U.S. Forest Service is trying something a little different. Within a 160,000-acre plot of land, where much of the forest is overgrown and 21,000 acres burned up in the Davis Fire, the agency decided Friday to log or thin out trees on plots of land....

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