Using a fire simulation model, Cochrane et al. [60] found that landscape - scale mechanical thinning that preceded actual wildfires could have reduced the average size of six wildfires in ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests in California and the southwestern United States by an average of 18 % (range 0.3 to 65 %). (journals.plos.org)
What may be true for lodgepole pine forests in the Rocky Mountains may not be true for mixed conifer forests in the Sierra Nevada, he said. (newsdeeply.com)
Cutting trees also reduces the amount of water that an old - growth conifer forest gathers from fog. (oregonwild.org)