Comment on ‘‘Post-Wildfire Logging Hinders Regeneration and Increases Fire Risk’’

regeneration and increases fire risk. We argue that their paper lacks adequate context and supporting information to be clearly interpreted by scientists, resource managers, policy-makers, and the public. D onato et al. (1) recently concluded that logging 2 to 3 years after wildfire kills natural regeneration and increases fire risk. The research may make a valuable con-tribution, but the study lacks adequate context and supporting information to be clearly inter-preted. Here, we discuss the paper_s methods and conclusions in the context of relevant man-agement objectives and the forestry knowledge base concerning natural regeneration processes, mortality from logging, and fuel accumula