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Ah, so. Well, like I said, I'm no repository of environmental information, but it seems to me that I heard/read that forests need to be harvested (or at least thinned out) for the health of the whole system to be optimal. I 'member a storm that came through east Texas and knocked down a dooload of pine trees, and the ecoterrorists raised hell over the lumber companies wanting to "harvest" the fallen timber. That particular issue went back and forth for quite some time, until somebody pointed out that the wood was going to rot if they didn't hurry up and get it out of there--and the additional fuel for fires--I believe they finally did allow the harvest to take place, but I never understood the argument against logging. Trees DO grow back...it's just not an exciting spectator sport. Now, chopping the tree down in which that sociopath Butterfly girl was roosting in...that would've been exciting.