Post-Wildfire (Salvage) Logging - The Controversy

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I.  Introduction

• Management concerns after a fire
• Definition of salvage logging
• Economics of salvage logging

II.  Salvage logging - the controversy

• Arguments in support of salvage logging
• Arguments in opposition to salvage logging

III.  Science informs the debate

• Salvage logging and conifer regeneration
• Salvage logging and the risk of future fires

IV.  What have we learned?

• Impacts are complex and site-specific
• Science informing the debate is incomplete
• Salvage logging and reforestation
• Salvage logging and ecological restoration
• Salvage logging and future fire risk

V.  The future of wildfire management

• Long-term management goals
• Recommendations for ecological restoration

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