Kootenai County approves $450,000 MOU with Idaho Department of Lands for hazardous-fuels treatment Board approved an MOU with the Idaho Department of Lands for a $450,000 landowner assistance grant to treat roughly 133 acres of hazardous fuels in Wolf Lodge, Cataldo and Harrison; county staff said no local match is required.

Kootenai County just secured a $450,000 grant to tackle hazardous fuels across 133 acres, paving the way for safer communities in Wolf Lodge, Cataldo, and Harrison!

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The painting designation means this old growth is a unit boundary tree. The orange also signifies it's a leave tree. Old growth trees, typically those over 24" DBH, are not cut during thinning projects. This area is being thinned to reduce hazardous fuels around a community in northern Arizona. Fire suppression for the last 150 years here has created overstocked forests that are more prone to disease and insects outbreaks and burn at high severity rather than the low severity every 5 -15 years that they are adapted to. Most wood from ponderosa pine is used to create pallets or or biofuel since it is a soft wood.

Biggest ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) I've found so far, taping at 36" DBH.

Don't panic, this old guy will not be cut. See alt text for more details.

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