[B4Ranch]

The type of logic that I do not comprehend is where a group wants to keep American citizens out of our forests. They don't want any roads in the forests and say how sad it is when we have forest fires that burn for weeks killing animals, trees and clogging the creeks with ashes.

Trees are not rocks, they will grow old and die. They become infected with insects and diseases. An old forest has many less mammals and birds in them than a younger growing forest. Trees provide homes and food for animals, wood for building homes, paper to write upon, jobs for many trades.

What is the purpose behind keeping people out of the forests? There has to be a substantial reason why someone would lie in their research reports.

Please don't go off into a reply about overuse, this is something that can be repaired because trees do grow.

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

"What is the purpose behind keeping people out of the forests? There has to be a substantial reason why someone would lie in their research reports.

B4R, The same "reason" as in the time of Robbin' Hood. To keep people from being able to wander off godgov's "plantation". To keep people from discovering independence and FREEDOM!!! Peace and love, George.

LONG LIVE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONSTITUTION
WITH ITS ATTENDANT AMENDMENTS

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[brityank]

Please don't go off into a reply about overuse, this is something that can be repaired because trees do grow.

See the book "Fire in Sierra Nevada Forests" by George Gruell, from Mountain Press Publishing Co. His compilation of scenes of various forestry settings shows how poorly the extremes of both sides can be. In retrospect, I think clear cutting is actually kinder than no human impact and fire suppression; it does allow for regrowth of healthy trees that the closed canopy result of the extremists does not.