This variation on the presettlement model provides for wildlife cover and travel corridors. Approximately 20% of each unit is unthinned (but prescribed burned) in patches of the more dense forest that is currently existing. Interspersed in these unthinned patches are treated areas thinned according to the presettlement model that result in "fire breaks". Therefore, this model results in a mosaic of small (generally from 5-25 acres) areas of restoration thinning on 80% of the unit, while the other 20% is retained in dense forest patches for wildlife cover and travel. Both the thinned and unthinned areas are followed with a prescribed fire.

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