The Four Corners Fire: A Fuels Reduction Success Story

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Date of this Version

2006

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Published by Nebraska Forest Service and Nebraska National Forest

Abstract

In 1903, tree planting began on the Dismal River Forest Reserve in an effort to avoid what, at the time, appeared to be very real prospects of a future timber shortage. One hundred years later, the Forest Reserve is the Nebraska National Forest, and ideas of a national timber shortage have been replaced by a compelling need to thin forests to prevent large, catastrophic fires.