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  A shelterwood timber harvest in the 1980s thinned the forest while retaining the larger ponderosa pine. Though the Hayman Fire burned through the adjacent area at high intensity, the fire fell out of the canopy and burned through the thinned area as a ground fire. Although ponderosa pine’s thick bark protects the trees from surface fire, the heat of gasses released from the adjacent burning areas killed nearby trees while the interior trees survived. View the Cubical Panorama of Shelterwood Harvest (1.8 Mb) Panorama taken July 2002 Also see; |
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