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Dense Forest of Ponderosa Pine.

This stand is slated for restoration. The stand is typical of the ponderosa pine forest in Colorado’s Front Range. The stand regenerated after cutting in the late 1800s. Grazing and wildfire suppression through much of the 20th century has resulted in hundreds of thousands of acres of dense ponderosa pine. These dense forests burn as high-intensity, crown fires that kill all or most of the mature trees. While the thick-barked ponderosa pine is well adapted to survive surface fires that occurred in the historically more open, park-like forests, the species is not adapted to survive or regenerate after high-intensity, crown fires.

View the Cubical Panorama of Dense Forest (2.3 Mb)

Panorama taken July 2002
Resource Issues Forest Health Main South Platte Dense Forest
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 Looking at the dense Ponderosa Pine forest.