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has been superseded by clear cutting in strips 

 or plots because the former resulted in windfall in 

 cut over areas or other harmful results. In Douglas 

 fir in Western Oregon and Washington, clear cutting 

 and leaving scattered seed trees was replaced by 

 clear cutting in plots alternating with uncut 

 areas because the earlier method usually resulted 

 in loss of the seed trees by windthrow or slash- 

 burning. 



Slash disposal practices changed too. The 

 earlier method of piling and burning in ponderosa 

 and lodgepole pine has been changed to leave most 

 of the cutting slash scattered, with piling and 

 burning along roads or other chosen places where fires 

 could more readily be stopped. 



Fire under controlled conditions has ome to 

 be used as a management tool in parts of the southern 

 pine territory, for example, the purpose being to 

 reduce inflammable undergrowth and, in the case of 

 longleaf pine, to prevent damage from the brown- 

 spot disease. Properly controlled, fire used in this 

 way does no measurable harm to either old or young 

 pines. 



