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These include prescribed burns and forest thinning practices to remove smaller trees and flammable brush from the forest floor (a process that can include raking).
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Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
Those accumulate on the forest floor, and become perfect kindling for fires, igniting with even the smallest spark from a cigarette or lawn mower.
—Bianca Moreno-Paz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Inside Biosphere 2's giant glass pyramid, tropical trees stretch 80 feet above the forest floor.
—Alina Hartounian, NPR, 7 July 2025
Those properties act as a ladder fuel, spreading flames from the forest floor to the canopy, where trees otherwise resistant to low-intensity fires can catch fire.
—Jimmy Lovrien, Twin Cities, 23 May 2025
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Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
Those accumulate on the forest floor, and become perfect kindling for fires, igniting with even the smallest spark from a cigarette or lawn mower.
—Bianca Moreno-Paz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Inside Biosphere 2's giant glass pyramid, tropical trees stretch 80 feet above the forest floor.
—Alina Hartounian, NPR, 7 July 2025
Those properties act as a ladder fuel, spreading flames from the forest floor to the canopy, where trees otherwise resistant to low-intensity fires can catch fire.
—Jimmy Lovrien, Twin Cities, 23 May 2025
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“Forest floor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forest%20floor. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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