A final report concluding the 10-year Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management Project has been released, and finds consensus among a range of scientists that forest fuel reduction treatments have wide-reaching benefits. John Battles was a lead PI on the project.
See UCANR’s coverage of the story here, and the read the full SNAMP Final Report here.
![Fuels treatments at SNAMP's Last Chance site. Photo from http://snamp.cnr.berkeley.edu/.](https://nature.berkeley.edu/battleslab/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/6209396774_4bd6a34584.jpg)