Lenero

Image of a person with a chainsaw cutting a felled tree
Photo By/Credit

J. R. Logan/Cerro Negro Forest Council

Date Shot/Created
08/22/2019
Media Usage Rights/License
Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved - Used by Permission
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A le帽ero bucks a thinned tree into firewood for home heating. Le帽ero are local woodcutters who thinn their allocated blocks according to a Forest Service silviculturist鈥檚 prescription. This helps reduce the likelihood of high-severity wildfire in areas near the communities of San Cristobal and Valdez and provides communities with firewood for home heating and sale.