A Land Manager's Guide for Creating Fire-resistant Forests

This publication provides an overview of how various silvicultural treatments affect
fuel and fire behavior, and how to create fire-resistant forests. In properly
treated, fire-resistant forests, fire intensity is reduced and overstory trees
are more likely to survive than in untreated forests. Fire-resistant forests
are not “fireproof” – under the right conditions, any forest will burn. Much of
what we present here is pertinent to the drier forests of the Pacific Northwest,
which have become extremely dense and fire prone