Forest Thinning

The removal of a portion of trees and shrubs from a site to reduce amounts, density, and continuity of live or dead wildland fuels as a means of reducing hazards and potential fire intensity and spread rates, with secondary benefits of improving vegetation vigor and resiliency, or recovering potential mortality.

Thinning From Below
Removing only excess smaller size class trees while leaving larger size class trees which reduces the potential for severe fire effects, decreases the susceptibility to mortality from insects and diseases, and increases the ability of larger size trees to survive low intensity ground fires.
(Both thinning treatments can be accomplished by either using hand-operated power tools or by mechanical equipment.)

Summary:
Since 2002 Firestorm has completed over 4,000 acres of various thinning projects. Clients include: private landowners, community fire safe councils, conservation foundations, Department of Interior-Bureau of Land Management and the United States Department of Agriculture-Forest Service