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The Wilderness Tool
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The Chainsaw Solution to Erosion in Wilderness
Bandelaire National Monument in New Mexico was heavily damaged due to fire suppression and livestock grazing/nChainsaws were used to cut small juniper trees and mulch the ground with their branches in a rare exception to the Wilderness Act's rule against motors/nThe use of chainsaws led to a significant reduction in rates of erosion and a threefold increase in the population of native grasses/nThe use of primitive tools such as cross cut saws would not have been able to yield the same results as quickly
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