Post-fire logging removes large woody fuels – snags – but does not reduce future fire hazard. 

This type of logging typically leaves behind the fine woody fuels (brush, limbs, twigs, branches, etc.) that drive most fire behavior and does not significantly influence the amount of fuels produced by new vegetative growth.

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