5,130 acres of timber in the Nebraska National Forest at Halsey has remained dead standing following 2022’s Bovee fire. Since early January, timber crews have been harvesting pine along roads.
“I’d much rather deal with this than that,” said Matt Mattioda, gesturing first to a heaping stack of logs, then to the burn scar of the 416 Fire looming less than a quarter mile away.
As he muses, a .
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FOREST SERVICE ROAD 863 – The fire crew moves methodically. Sawyers liberate bushes from their root systems and buck logs into manageable rounds as a swarm of swampers surround each, hauling the debri.