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  The dense ponderosa pine forest burned as a high intensity crown fire during the Hayman Fire. Although ponderosa pine is a fire-adapted species whose thick bark provides protection against surface fires, the bark does not provide any protection from crown fires. Such fires are more common in the current dense forest than they were in the historically more open, park-like ponderosa pine stands. A timber sale in the 1980s thinned the area behind where USFS Silviculturist, Jim Thinnes, is standing. The fire dropped out of the crowns in that thinned portion of the forest. View the Cubical Panorama of Crown Fire (2 Mb) Panorama taken July 2002 Also see; |
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