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Industry managed forests more likely to fuel megafires, study finds #environment

Industry managed forests more likely to fuel megafires, study finds
The odds of high-severity wildfire were nearly one-and-a-half times higher on industrial private land than on publicly owned forests, a new study found. Forests managed by timber companies were more likely to exhibit the conditions that megafires love—dense stands of regularly spaced trees with continuous vegetation connecting the understory to the canopy.

A new trail in Shindagin Hollow State Forest near where I live
#photo #photography #caroline #forest