[crz]

"Conservationists, including the Sierra Club, have urged saving the large fire resistant old growth trees and have supported thinning the forest of underbrush and smaller trees (12 inches or smaller in diameter)."

In the first place they are not conservationalists..they are extremist preservationalists. In the second their idea of harvesting only 12 inch and smaller is so far fetched its laughable...fits nicely into their "Old Growth" agenda.

[MARTIAL MONK]

The fire cut up just east of the area of the Pleasant Valley War. Lots of folks started down trails and never showed up at the other end. If I was an environmentalist I would stay out of the woods for a while. There are a bunch of people whose family lines go back generations in that area. They are tired if being told how to manage the forests by self appointed masters. They are hotter than the fire.