Researchers study how thinning helps stand of old-growth trees
| October 29, 2006 |  View for printing |
For centuries, fire had been a frequent visitor to the forest floor beneath this 300-year-old larch perched on a side hill far above Missoula's Grant Creek.
Every couple of decades, fire cleared out the underbrush and most of the young trees trying to get a foothold in what was then a relatively open forest.
For most of its life, this larch lived with relatively few neighbors.
By PERRY BACKUS of the Missoulian
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