When fire burns ranch land, it takes years to mitigate the damage and may be impossible to do without help.

Mast Reforestation has been helping a Big Horn County land owner restore the land from a wildfire four years ago.

Learn how the biomass is buried in the video below: Biomass burial helps restore ranch land in Big Horn County

“We raised cattle. They rested underneath what trees we used to have,” said Rebecca Gentry. “This land has been in our family for over 80 years. It was my grandfather's. My family worked this ranch. My dad farmed and ranched here.”

Gentry's family lost numerous Ponderosa pine trees during the Poverty Flats Fire that burned 75,000 acres in July of 2021.

“The amount of burn that we had on this property was over 80 percent,” Gentry said.

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