Ongoing Research and Discussion
The August 4, 2006 issue of Science contained comments by the OSU professors, congressman Brian Baird, and a response from Donato and his colleagues. Evergreen Magazine subsequently committed an entire issue to a discussion of the controversy.
In the following year, two new papers substantiated, in part, Donato's findings. Natural conifer regeneration following severe fires in the Siskiyou Klamath region was common and stocking standards were always exceeded without planting, although natural regenerated conifers grew slower than planted conifers. Thompson and others found that Biscuit Fire severity was higher in areas that had been burned and salvaged fifteen years earlier (1987) than it was in comparable areas that were burned in 1987 but left unmanaged.
Read more about this topic: Biscuit Fire Publication Controversy
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