1. What does that look like?
Healthy Forest (read fire safe) for the Deschutes River Recreational Homesites #6
What does that look like?

2. 100 years ago

3. Then came cows and loggers

4. And Firefighters

5. And our forest went from this

6. To this

7. This is important today because…
Fire in healthy ponderosa pine forest
Fire in unthinned lodgepole pine forest

8. Ponderosa Forest

9. Lodgepole Forest

10. The match up… Ponderosa Lodgepole Fire adapted spices
Long living in healthy forest years
Frequent 3-12 year fires but low to moderate fire intensity
Park like setting
6 to 20 stems per acre
Thick fire resistant bark
Deep tap root system
Needles that can absorb moisture directly form air (I.e. early morning fog)
Disturbed site fire dependent species
Short lived less than 60 to 80 years
Beetle kill susceptible
Fires are generally high intensity total stand replacement fires
100 to 600 stems per acre -thicket
Thin bark – any fire can girdle and kill
Shallow root system
Needles do not absorb atmospheric moisture

11. Flat Lodgepole root system vs. Deep Ponderosa root system

12. So how to we get back to

13. Thin existing trees so branches do not touch Limb branches up 6-10’ Remove any lodgepole less than 4”dbh Plant and promote ponderosa pine Plant and promote aspen and willow on wetter sites Promote native grasses and plants over bitter and rabbit brush (burn or mow once every few years in the fall)

14. How does this matter to DRRH #6