PNW fir canopy getting thin…?

[Skeans1]

Also the wildfires clean out the under growth that is taking away the water from the timber.
Most people think fire is bad for the forest. Sometimes it's good.

If you think out the understory it takes care of that issue. The biggest problem with a lot of the thinning I’ve been around on government style projects is its basal area based so it really doesn’t incentivize understory thinning its about a number that can change with anyone’s eye. Most of the thinning that’s done on private is based on the amount of light/how many sides are open or trees per acre with crop tree release in Doug fir.

 

[Skeans1]

So…it occurred to me that the LRR we know of so far is the lowest spot on the property, and downhill from the septic drain field. That being said, there hasn’t been much or anything coming out of that septic in a long time.

Unless the ground water is running down through the field, one thing we’ve been told with it is it can take over 100 years for it to disappear the pathogen will survive as long as Doug fir is around including roots in the ground. I’ve been in areas thinning that would have an acre or two of nothing but shells of root rot Doug fir but every once in a while you’d have a good trees in the middle of the rot zone not sure why.

 

[davidwyby]

Unless the ground water is running down through the field, one thing we’ve been told with it is it can take over 100 years for it to disappear the pathogen will survive as long as Doug fir is around including roots in the ground. I’ve been in areas thinning that would have an acre or two of nothing but shells of root rot Doug fir but every once in a while you’d have a good trees in the middle of the rot zone not sure why.

Does it stop spreading on its own? I’ve read uproot everything for a 50’ buffer.

 

[davidwyby]

@mainer_in_ak yall get root rot up there?

 

[Skeans1]

Does it stop spreading on its own? I’ve read uproot everything for a 50’ buffer.

Not without taking every scrap of Doug fir and Western Hemlock out of the infected area. A good thing to have for a rotation is Red Alder in Root Rot areas it helps break down the fir material. How old is this stand?