 | Image Before | Eastern Unit-before picture depicting example of thick lodgepole that will be thinned. | |
 | Image Before | Eastern Unit-before picture depicting example of thick lodgepole that will be thinned. | |
 | Image Before | Heavy Down/Dead | |
 | Image Before | Aspen Conifer Down/Dead | |
 | Image Before | Sheep Collar heat map from 1/1/2017 to 3/28/2019 | |
 | Image After | Mule deer, one a collared doe, walk through a recent machine-piled treatment area. | |
 | Image After | Hand-cut piles cure prior to burning. Tree density prior to treatment can be seen in the background through the leave trees. | |
 | Image After | Shaded fuel breaks were created along forest roads and trails in the project area to allow for prescribed burn or wildfire holding operations. Both hand cut & pile and mechanical pile (pictured) treatments were used to create ~150ft buffers. | |
 | Image After | Pre-treatment lodgepole density can be seen in the background, with a large thinned area in the fore and mid-ground. Spacing achieved during treatments will allow for robust understory growth and improved timber growth and health of leave trees. | |