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Article #1263Re: Bush Opens Roadless Tongass National Forest to Logging
From: SMITH29
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:34
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:34
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y_p_w wrote: > On Jan 28, 6:47 am, "Jon" <jonm...@none.non> wrote: >> "SMITH29" <smit...@comcast.net> wrote >> >>>> On Jan 27, 1:51 am, jazzerci...@hotmail.com (-) wrote: >>>>> Bush Opens Roadless Tongass National Forest to Logging >>> We eventually lose unmanaged forest land to uncontrollable fires. >> Fire can be a non-artificial part of the ecosystem. Artificial fire >> suppression can lead to significant build up of fuel load which >> may make eventual fires less natural in their effect. > > I heard it's the underbrush accumulation from years of fire > suppression that can lead to uncontrollable fires in the future. I > was in Yosemite Valley last summer when they were doing a controlled > burn to remove some of that vegetation without clearing trees. The > trees were certainly scarred by fire, but their nature is to survive > small fires. > > http://nature.nps.gov/firemanagement/index.cfm xxxx The ash from fire is a soil nutrient so control burning is a good thing. A forest fire burns tree top to tree top as flame balls jump ahead of the rest of the burn and the trees explode from the intense heat. Ground burning won't help that kind of fire which likely as not was a lightning strike of 100,000 amp or more which can literally split a tree open and set it ablaze in a few seconds. I had a bolt hit a swimming pool across the alley from the motel veranda I was standing on and the bolt boiled water and a lot of steam rose up. It scared hell out of me and I could see the bolt for days when I shut my eyes. Wicked stuff and very loud.... 29
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