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Archive Home > 2007 > December > 21 > Researchers plan to thin out former clear-cuts in hopes of healthier forests

Researchers plan to thin out former clear-cuts in hopes of healthier forests

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
December 21, 2007

Just south of Bend, there are a lot of trees that look a lot like each other.

They grew back, in dense and overcrowded stands, after old-growth forest was clear-cut in the 1920s and 1930s.

Now, to try to figure out how to push these ponderosa pine forests into old-growth conditions like they....

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