In the “before” photo of a restoration project near Williams, Arizona, large trees were marked as “leave trees” using pink plastic ties and orange paint at the base. This was to alert thinning crews that those trees were to be left on the landscape.
Smaller, younger trees not exhibiting pink ties or orange paint were removed using mechanical or hand thinning at a forest restoration project.
With the small, dense trees thinned out and surface fuels removed in the “after” photo, there is decreased risk of high-intensity crown fire occurring.
