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Cottonwood Prescribed Fire and Star Gulch Wildfire Comparison Gallery
Boise National Forest


40.147-12.JPG
10/15/1994

A stand replacing burn of Ponderosa Pine occurred during the Star Gulch wildfire in the Boise National Forest. Across the road an area was treated in the Cottonwood prescribed fire 3 months earlier. When the star Gulch fire hit the cottonwood prescribed burn area, it went to ground and most of the large trees in the prescribed burn area remained alive. . Compare 40.147-16

40.147-16.JPG
10/15/1994

This stand of trees was burned in the Cottonwood prescribed fire in April. 3 months later the Star Gulch fire swept through the same area of the Boise National Forest. Most large trees in the prescribed burn area remained alive. Across the road a stand replacing burn of Ponderosa Pine occurred in the same ponderosa pine forest type creating hydrophic soils. Compare 40.147-12

FH18-13 .jpg
10/15/1994

A stand replacing burn of Ponderosa Pine occurred during the Star Gulch wildfire in the Boise National Forest. Across the road an area was treated in the Cottonwood prescribed fire 3 months earlier. When the star Gulch fire hit the cottonwood prescribed burn area, it went to ground and most of the large trees in the prescribed burn area remained alive. . Compare 40.139-17
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