Paul Donnellon, a supervisory forester with the Flathead National Forest, shows how a timber load is labeled before it is driven off on March 9, 2023. (Kate Heston/Daily Inter Lake)
March 26, 2023
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Timber management project aims to mimic natural process
Forests regenerate on their own naturally, sometimes through wildfire. In 1929, the Half Moon fire burned more than 100,000 acres in the Flathead Valley and Glacier National Park, leaving the woods around Coram and Lake Five scorched black.