[Minutes]

Cut down every forest in the US so there aren't any fires. Yup.

That's not what this article is saying!

I come from a 'logging' town, that is all but shut down because of the environmentalists.... Even as I saw familes having to move elsewhere because there were no jobs either in logging, or the saw mill or pulp mill... even as I watched local business' go under when there were no loggers left to buy their goods, I thought, "Well, we can't keep raping the land..."

But, this article makes perfect sense. I remember in the 60's my dad talking about having to leave the saplings, about clearing the underbrush. That makes sense and money all the way around.

I don't agree with clear cutting, though.

[EggsAckley]

Nobody believes in clear-cutting, not even the timber companies. When forests are creatively thinned, there will be trees growing back, creating an endless source of lumber.