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Slide 1: A combination of past logging practices,
decades of fire suppression, and current reductions in harvest
activity on public forest lands have resulted in dense forests
of small diameter trees in many areas of the inland west.
These forests have become overstocked and drought stressed.
The incidence of insect infestation and forest fire are on
the rise. Contrast the healthy forest pictured below