[Carry_Okie]

The weed seeds survive these fires and easily take over once their competition is destroyed.

Yup, and it's often the fire crews and their equipment that bring in the seed and sow it all over the place.

[ken5050]

Channel surfing last night..I caught a bit of the Senate debate...the sight of Boxer "mourning" the dead firefighter was just too much to bear...

[First_Salute]

 

"In 1993, the U.S. Forest Service put into place the Northwest Forest Plan, the culmination of a series of lawsuits challenging the aggressive logging that was stripping the Pacific Northwest of its old-growth forests. The plan reduced the rate of logging on 13 national forests in the western parts of Washington, Oregon, and California by about 85 percent."

Typical --- not a law passed by the people of the United States, but more government by judiciary.