Comparisons between wildfire and forest harvesting and their implications in forest management

By D. Mcrae, L. Duchêsne, B. Freedman, T. J. Lynham, S. Woodley. 2001

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Understory Vegetation Dynamics of North American Boreal Forests (2006, background): “Although spatially similar in appearance, the different effects of wildfire and forest harvesting on a number of environmental factors result in different physical and chemical properties (McRae et al., 2001).”
Climate change's impact on key ecosystem services and the human well‐being they support in the US (2013, background): “Therefore, well-managed forests with active thinning practices are not only valuable for timber production but can also minimize property loss and the degradation of a diverse suite of ecosystem services (eg McRae et al. 2001).”
Can forest management based on natural disturbances maintain ecological resilience (2006, background): “In doing this, it is important to keep in mind that although management may seek to emulate disturbance by retaining structure, fundamental differences exist between harvesting and fire, windthrow, insect outbreaks, and pathogens (Quine et al. 1999; McRae et al. 2001).”