Summary: The best-laid plans in forest management can go awry. Even controlled burns can have unintended consequences, as happened not long ago in the Ashland Forest Resiliency project. Although a controlled burn stayed within its designated lines, a few big trees that were meant to survive did not. So project managers took up a new strategy: plant sugar pines. They used to be part of the landscape in the Ashland watershed, and fit the needs of the project--the overall intent of which is to keep
