Surprisingly, it appears that after even the most severe fires, the forest is naturally very resilient, more than it?s often given credit for.

Do they have forest fires around here?

The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.

The data revealed some real surprises. Even though most people assumed it wouldn't come back, you could say the forest sort of surprised us with its resilience. Our management goals for early conifer establishment were met even without any effort on our part.

Clandestine labs are like forest fires cropping up all over the state. When you have something that's big and contained, at least you can fight it in the same way you always have.

These results surprised us. Even after a huge high-severity fire in a place that is really tough to grow trees we are finding abundant natural tree regeneration.