Congressional testimony at the senate committee on energy and natural resources hearing on forest health problems in the national forests, July 22, 2003 in Washington, DC.

Covington, W. Wallace (2003) Congressional testimony at the senate committee on energy and natural resources hearing on forest health problems in the national forests, July 22, 2003 in Washington, DC. Other. NAU Ecological Restoration Institute, http://www.eri.nau.edu.

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Abstract

I will focus my remarks on two important changes that are needed to reverse the trend of increasing catastrophic wildfires. First, we need to move forward with large scale restoration-based fuel treatments that are commensurate with the threat of catastrophic fire. Second, we need to use comprehensive restoration-based treatments as opposed to just thinning trees. If we dont we are merely treating a symptom, condemning ourselves to be plagued by continuing problems in the future, and will lose the opportunity to solve many of the problems associated with degraded forest ecosystemsincluding bark beetles and disease.

Item Type:	Monograph (Other)
Keywords:	Management, Policy, ERI Library
Subjects:	S Agriculture > SD Forestry
NAU Depositing Author Academic Status:	Faculty/Staff
Department/Unit:	Research Centers > Ecological Restoration Institute
Date Deposited:	20 Jul 2016 20:35
URI:	http://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/2867

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