[meyer]

If fire gets into Lake Arrowhead, this is where all the beetle damage is. I hunt there and the forest is all dead. The Jeffrey pines there will go up like Roman Candles. If the fire gets into those huge stands of dead trees the whole mtn will burn down.

THis is the place where the news reported was the worst fire dange in the nation this summer. USFS has been logging the trees to head off disaster but it thje usual case of last-minititus.

As far as the woods is concerned, the fire is probably the best way to get rid of the beetles now. But, there's so much to lose up there that thinning and clearing would have been the best path to removing them in the first place. They could have cleared a bunch of bad wood and burned it in the middle of the desert somewhere where it couldn't harm anything else.

[spectr17]

As far as the woods is concerned, the fire is probably the best way to get rid of the beetles now. But, there's so much to lose up there that thinning and clearing would have been the best path to removing them in the first place. They could have cleared a bunch of bad wood and burned it in the middle of the desert somewhere where it couldn't harm anything else.

THe area has neeeded a good burn for decades. That is why the beetle did the damge the past years and now Mother Nature will thin the forest her way. Gene Zimmerman, the SBNF supervisor has mismanaged that forest into a disaster and should be fired.