1.   His group has helped establish small timber operations that help thin the forests.

2.   In general, the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management seem to prefer preventive fires over cutting in their efforts to thin forests.

3.   Local conservation groups are skeptical of proposals to thin the forest through logging.

4.   That plan includes money to hire additional firefighters and to implement preventive measures such as prescribed burns or cutting to thin forests and reduce fuel buildup.

5.   And selective cutting thins remaining forests and lessens their biological diversity.

6.   Now the forest is much thinned by logging, and the boar are scarce.

7.   The bulk of the money goes to hiring new firefighters, thinning dense forests and restoring forests than have already burned.