Post Fire Rehabilitation
The immediate damage from high severity forest fires is readily apparent: the loss of trees and vegetation. Post-fire damage, however, may be even more significant than the damage caused by the fire. The loss of forests to catastrophic fires typically leads to the following threats to life and property:
Post-fire rehabilitation has a number of objectives, including the following:
- flooding
- soil erosion
- sedimentation in urban infrastructure
Post-fire rehabilitation has a number of objectives, including the following:
- minimizing threats to life and property
- restoring watersheds and water quality
- reducing the loss of productive soil
- controlling water flows
- restoring wildlife habitat
- salvaging timber for end-market products
Markit! Forestry Management's Capabilities
Following forest fires Markit! Forestry Management can implement fire damage and flood damage mitigation projects with a combination of mechanical and handwork methods. Markit! Forestry Management's foresters will work on their own or will work with federal, state and local foresters to review burned forests and write prescriptions to rehabilitate burned areas. With an agreed post-fire prescription, Markit! will provide the following services as appropriate:
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- Hazardous tree removal
- Salvage logging
- Installation of Log Erosion Barriers (LEB)
- Contour felling of trees to reduce soil erosion
- Mulching
- Seeding
- Jute matting installation
- Straw waddles and straw bale structure installation
- Low water crossing treatments
- Woody residue treatment
- Channel stabilization
- Herbaceous weed control
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