No locations were established in th

No locations were established in the steep slope areas, because treatment was not allowed under forest management guidelines due to the erosion risk. Four different treatments were established in each location in the Walker Flats study area. Each location had a control, interspace, lop-scatter, and pile in different portions of the site. Control treatments were established in areas where no thinning or burning activity had been practiced. Lop-scatter, pile, and interspace treatments had thinning and burning activities in the Walker Flats Grazing Allotment. Silvicultural thinning had been practiced before slash was scattered and burned on the ground in lop-scatter treatments. Similarly, in pile treatments, thinning had been applied before the slash was piled and burned. The interspace treatments were established between separately selected slash piles.