The Fire Smart Home Handbook by Clyde Soles

Author:Clyde Soles
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781493008308
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2014-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

Lopping and Scattering

When hauling or chipping isn’t an option, you may need to resort to lopping the branches and scattering them. If you’re mitigating far from a road, particularly at the bottom of a steep slope where hauling uphill isn’t practical, this may be your only practical option.

The key to effective lopping and scattering is dragging the branches out into open areas, away from other trees, then cutting them into small pieces. The goal is for all the slash to be spread out and stay close to the ground, where the higher moisture levels will speed decay. When you’re done, nothing should rise up higher than 12 inches.

Lopping and scattering is problematic in dense forest because you can’t get the fuel away from living trees. A surface fire here will burn so hot that most of the remaining trees will die even though it wasn’t a crown fire. In this case, it’s probably better to create slash piles, knowing that they may become bonfires. Locate piles as far from trees as possible. Though a hazard, they will decompose in a few decades and make great homes for critters in the meantime.

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