That's a finding sure to find its way into ongoing fights over whether to do more salvage logging.

NPR: Study: Salvage Logging Boosts Forest-Fire Threat

In some parts of the American West, you can start a bar fight by mentioning a forestry practice called salvage logging.

NPR: Study: Salvage Logging Boosts Forest-Fire Threat

Ever since the fire went out, the US Forest Service has been pushing an ambitious salvage logging plan for the area.

NPR: Study: Salvage Logging Boosts Forest-Fire Threat

The poster landscape for the salvage logging debate can be found in the mountains of Oregon, mountains blackened in 2002 by the 500, 000-acre Biscuit fire, which was the biggest in the history of the state.

NPR: Study: Salvage Logging Boosts Forest-Fire Threat