It certainly increases the risk if you're not taking the fuel out. It's a continuous change—taking the timber out, sending it to the mills, replanting and starting the cycle over again. That reduces the risk, and you can build fire breaks by engineered plans for how you're logging the cut blocks. On the east coast we do primarily, and almost exclusively, clear-cut logging. We take everything out, and then clean it up and replant. It makes a fire break from one area to the next.
