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Harsh Yosemite fire aftermath: 40 percent of land 'nuked'
MSNBC ^ | 9/26/20013 | staff MSNBC

Posted on 09/19/2013 7:30:28 AM PDT by shadeaud

Within the footprint of California's Rim Fire is an area of 60 square miles where everything is dead, the worst such burn damage in centuries.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: fireyosemite
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Thank you, you ignorant environment wackos. I believe you don't screw around with Mother Nature
1 posted on 09/19/2013 7:30:28 AM PDT by shadeaud
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To: shadeaud

I remember the Yellowstone fires that burned so hot the ground was sterilized. It appears to have happened here as well.


2 posted on 09/19/2013 7:33:49 AM PDT by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: shadeaud
Drought, and dryness associated with a warming climate ....

They just had to go there, didn't they?

3 posted on 09/19/2013 7:33:57 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: shadeaud

Gosh too bad no one cut fire-breaks through the ‘pristine’ forests...

Not so pristine anymore, are they.

And no jobs created building things from the wood, and a ton of smoke added to the atmoshpere as it turned to nothing but ashes instead of houses for the homeless(but hey! it’s natural!)


4 posted on 09/19/2013 7:34:29 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: shadeaud

Regardless of the devastation, it was not NUKED...were that so, it would be uninhabitable. Go see what happened to the environment since Mt. St Helens got ‘nuked’.


5 posted on 09/19/2013 7:34:53 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: shadeaud

THis is NOT true. Many seeds require a fire to germinate. The region will come back very soon.


6 posted on 09/19/2013 7:35:11 AM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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To: liege

God has a green thumb ... just wait, watch and see.


7 posted on 09/19/2013 7:35:11 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: shadeaud

It is a natural process, nature renewing herself.


8 posted on 09/19/2013 7:36:47 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Henceforth, the Office of the President shall be known as IMPOTUS)
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To: shadeaud

1. The greens prevent selective logging of the forests
2. Forests become overgrown jungles
3. Forest fire starts and raging, supra-natural inferno ensues
4. Millions of dollars of timber up in smoke
5. Animal holocaust
6. Greens prevent loggers from using partially burnt, but otherwise dead, logs
7. Go back to Step 1 above.


9 posted on 09/19/2013 7:37:16 AM PDT by bkopto (Obama and Biden are merely symptoms of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
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To: shadeaud

Having worked alongside forest management agencies and private companies in the forests neighboring this one, I can predict with absolute certainty there is a stack of paperwork a mile high relating to attempts to have undergrowth as well as dead and dying trees removed from that area, and next to that stack will be a stack of restraining orders court actions, and court orders back and forth (advanced by environmental groups in places such as Rhode Island and Connecticut), the net result of which was nothing being done and the tinderbox left to explode. Thank the busybodies and their favorite judges.


10 posted on 09/19/2013 7:37:57 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: shadeaud

Next they’ll spend millions of my wasted tax dollars to produce a report finding that the forest has unexpectedly rebounded in spite of what a carbon belching gas bag I am.


11 posted on 09/19/2013 7:38:32 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: liege

You could smell that fire in Mn. Not kidding.


12 posted on 09/19/2013 7:38:52 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Citizen Tom Paine

“THis is NOT true. Many seeds require a fire to germinate. The region will come back very soon.”

It is this way every time. In a few years there will be all these articles expressing surprise at the rebound....unless of course scientists try to step in to fix it.


13 posted on 09/19/2013 7:39:24 AM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: liege

Remember Mount St. Helen it recovered nicely.


14 posted on 09/19/2013 7:43:23 AM PDT by boomop1 (term limits will only save this country.)
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To: Citizen Tom Paine
THis is NOT true. Many seeds require a fire to germinate. The region will come back very soon.

Normally that is true, but these mega-fires fed by excess undergrowth burn much longer and hotter than typical nature-caused fires DESTROYING the seeds and pine cones.

15 posted on 09/19/2013 7:45:32 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: dfwgator

Bullcrap. It’s 32 degrees here in Eastern Washington State


16 posted on 09/19/2013 7:50:02 AM PDT by gunner03
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To: Gaffer
Regardless of the devastation, it was not NUKED...were that so, it would be uninhabitable. Go see what happened to the environment since Mt. St Helens got ‘nuked’.

Yes.....I was about to post that same thought.

17 posted on 09/19/2013 7:51:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: shadeaud
Watch and behold mother nature. Three years and the land will be boiling over with wildlife and vegitation.

There is nothing so void of wildlife as overly matured forest. The ground is an unuseful empty plate for animals.

As Mel Ellis the late true environmentalist used to do, Set it to flame and watch the deer, grouse, foxes, and an endless list of wildlife flourish on the regeneration.

No rabbits equals no wildlife. Without brushy ground cover growth there is nothing for the food chain to start off with.

Fire is nature's kitchen output for the next 75 years after. Without it the kitchen is closed for Bambi, thumper, wolves, bison, wolverines, foxes, and so on. Without fire all you have are tree rats and predator birds who can cover twenty square miles for a meal. Not much else can.

18 posted on 09/19/2013 7:52:23 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: liege
It's not "sterilized"..it's nature..there will be seedlings germinating within a few days..

Google Mount St. Helens..there are amazing pictures showing what happened in the days, weeks, months, and years since the eruption..

19 posted on 09/19/2013 7:55:56 AM PDT by ken5050 (According to Dick Lugar, I'm a "random outlier." Woo Hoo!!!!)
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To: boomop1

Forget Mt. St. Helens.

Look at how quickly Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which WERE actually nuked, recovered.


20 posted on 09/19/2013 7:56:23 AM PDT by tanknetter
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