SNAMP Final Report: fuels treatments benefit forests

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/.
Fuels treatments at SNAMP’s Last Chance site. Photo from http://snamp.cnr.berkeley.edu/.