REDUCING TREE DENSITY AND CONTROLLED BURNING OF DEAD WOOD CAN LOWER FOREST FIRE INTENSITY
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FIGURE 7.40 The first photo shows an area burned during the 2007 Angora Fire that had not been treated by thinning and fuel reduction and where no trees survived the fire. Compare this to the second photo of a treated area burned in the fire, where 90% of the trees survived and where the fire burned mainly along the ground and not in the canopy. (Data from Safford et al., 2009)
(H. D. Safford/U.S. Forest Service) (H. D. Safford/U.S. Forest Service)