USFS Landscape Vegetation Analysis program aims to reduce heat, intensity of forest fires in 360,000 acres of Medicine Bow National Forest
*Editor’s Note: This is the second story in a series about fire mitigation in the Sierra Madre Mountains.*
Since 2018, the United States Forest Service (USFS) has been working on the Medicine Bow Landscape Vegetation Analysis (LaVA), which includes most of the Snowy Range and the Sierra Madre Range. The effort is to mitigate fires burning at a high heat intensity when and if a forest fire begins in the Medicine Bow National Forest (MBNF).
This is a formidable task, since LaVA includes vegetation management for more than 360,000 acres.
For the past nine years, the USFS has participated in timbe...
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