[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

The reason we haven't been managing our forests properly is because the latte drinking, urban living environmentalists want nature left "undisturbed". They don't want scrub clearing, or selective logging, they even closed down the roads the forestry service used to patrol the forests in many National Forests.

What these Park Avenue address weilding "Nature Children" fail to realize is that Nature is a Mother. And like any Mother, Mother Nature tells us "Clean up that Forest, or I will, and you won't like how I'll clean it up!" Mother Nature cleans with fire.

[stalin]

These fires were terrible because of the high fuel load.

How are environmentalists that have been saying that we need to save the biggest trees ( that withstand forest fires ) in managed lands and that we should let fires burn through in lands that we are trying to preserve in their natural state responsibe for poor managment ?

If that is what we had done these fires would have not been an issue at all.

If environmantalists are responsible for fighting fires in the past and cutting down the biggest trees that can withstand fires better then they would be responsible for this. So where is the evidence that this is the case ?

Is it environmentalists that have pushed for fighting fires in the past ? I've never heared them advocate that. Quite the oposite.

[kancel]

>>Most of the urban professionals who inhabit rural forests think that a forest choked with brush and scraggly trees is "natural." Their faith in forest preservation is unchallenged by the tragic personal experience of a firestorm. <<

In Leavenworth, Wa there is a small a spot that has some pictures from maybe 100 years ago. It is amazing- I have NEVER seen forest that bare and growing up in a camping family I saw a lot of forests. The entire setup is about healthy forests and fire prevention i want to say it is sponsered by the Forest Service but the info it presents as the right thing for forest management and actual policy seem to be completely at odds. next time I am there I will havt ot look at it better and read the text more carefully.