The Fire This Time [treehuggers and the Colo. fire]

Wall St. Journal ^ | June 21, 2002 | Editorial

[The Raven]

In December 1995, a storm hit the Six Rivers National Forest in northern California, tossing dead trees across 35,000 acres and creating dangerous fire conditions. For three years local U.S. Forest Service officials labored to clean it up, but they were blocked by environmental groups and federal policy. In 1999 the time bomb blew: A fire roared over the untreated land and 90,000 more acres.

[djreece]

FReeper Carry_Okie said it better in his book, Natural Process:

Bump for a great book. Maybe the current disaster will encourage more people to consider his important ideas.

[mafree]

Ping!

[_Jim]

My take is that we should let the things burn naturally. Nature will take care of the rest, over time, if we leave it alone and stop fighting the fires.

You just ain't gettin it ...

We PASSED that magical little point you wish for and talk about some time back -

- and NOW it's time to step in and manage the UN-BURNED FORESTS and put things in these forests BACK to that stage where the timber is 'thinned' as opposed to allowing the sickly over-crowded conditions that we have now to continue to exist!

To 'not thin' and instead let any fires that start burn what is STANDING to the ground is to REPEAT this mad cycle as opposed to getting some HEALTHY, tall timber growing in lieu of a bunch of sickly trees FULL of dead branches nearly all the way to the top on trees all crowded ALL TOGETHER.

Get it?