One of the significant misleading ideas about wildfire is what some call the Southwest Model of Ponderosa pine. In the Southwest, wildfire among Ponderosa pine is characterized by low severity-high frequency fire, thus reducing fuel so that mature trees could survive the blazes. This Southwest Model is regularly used by thinning/logging advocates (see Matt Arno’s fire More
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