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Wildfires and post-fire burnt-wood management treatments disturb the soils of forest ecosystems. However, little attention has been paid to the impact of these compound disturbances from a medium- to long-term perspective. In this study, we compared the decadal effect on soil carbon and nutrient concentrations (i.e. C, N, K and P) of two post-fire burnt wood treatments that differed in management intensity. We established two blocks differing in elevation, each including three replicates (ca. 3 ha) of each of two treatments: salvage logging (SL), a treatment that emulated a conventional salvage logging (although logs of dead wood were stacked within-plots in piles covering < 5% of the area), and a treatment where 90% of the burnt trees were manually cut but all biomass was haphazardly spread over the ground (partial cut, PC). Soil carbon and nutrient concentrations were compared across treatments, across the …