This photo was taken April 8, 2012 at approximately the 3800 foot elevation on Peterson Road near Blue Canyon in eastern Fresno County.This area is typical of the forest for tens of square miles around the site of this photo. Some areas are even thicker. The location has been twice treated with prescribed fire in the last 20 years and was much thicker previously.
One of the problems with this kind of growth, which has seen no wildfire since 1931, is that all the trees are very thin and spindly because of competition for sunlight.
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