Hazardous Fuels Removal
What is Vegetation Management?
Vegetation Management is the targeted control and elimination of unwanted Vegetation. From weeds to trees to bushes. It's important to remove and control dead and dying fuels year round to prevent fire spread. Thinning heavy brush, maintaining an ember resistant zone, and trimming or removing trees are all ways to help manage vegetation.
Hazardous Timber
In many cases after wildfires, burned trees are removed. The main reason is that they may provide fuel that increases the intensity of future wildfires. Many trees are also weakened from burning around the base of the trunk. The trees can fall over or blow down without warning, therefore considered hazardous.
Wildfire management, as opposed to suppression, comes with major changes in the way the forest looks. The chart shows how easy it is for a megafire to form. Reducing tree density and creating an opening in the forest canopy will highly reduce the chance of wildfire.
Fire-Suppressed Forest
Ecologically Managed Forest
