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Area Salmon River
Topic Tour: Fuels Reduction - Before and After
 

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Fuels Reduction at the Historic Sawyers Bar Church, 2003. This was a cooperative project done by the Salmon River Restoration Council and the US Forest Service. This is a standard shaded fuel break, which reduces the fuel continuity and fuel ladder.


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Fuels Reduction at the Historic Sawyers Bar Church, 2003. Flammable brush and small trees are combined with dead and downed material and chipped, as in this case, or burned.


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Fuels Reduction at the Historic Sawyers Bar Church, 2003. The larger trees and trimmed brush are left to provide shade, thus limiting the amount of brush and grass regrowth.


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Fuels Reduction on Eddy Gulch, 2002. Selected life stages of each species are left in order to maintain native biodiversity in the area.


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Fuels Reduction on Eddy Gulch, 2002. This shaded fuel break technique will not stop a future fire, but will slow the fire and keep it on the ground. This will allow people to get out safely, and fire fighters time to control the fire.


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Fuels Reduction on Taylor Creek, 2001. Breaking up the continuity of fuels on the ground reduces the capability of a future fire to burn with high flame lengths.


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Fuels Reduction on Taylor Creek, 2001. Extra effort is made around buildings in order to help protect the structures.


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Fuels Reduction on North Fork Salmon at White's Gulch, 2002. Trimming the limbs near the ground off the remaining trees and brush will reduce the risk of a future fire climbing up the trees into the crowns.




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