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What Can You Do With Thinned Pine Trees?

I’ve heard this question many times over the years from fellow mountain dwellers and land managers in the U.S. West, where we’re clearing trees and thinning stands around homes and towns to reduce high-intensity wildfires and return to historic low-intensity fire levels.

Curious, I began researching what people all over the globe have been doing with their thinned

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