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"SMITH29" <smith29@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.

> Reforestation plants trees in those strips and in 20-30 years the
> old growth strip is harvested.

"Old growth" is generally considered longer than 20-30 years.

> We should properly manage ALL our forest lands to preserve
> this finite resource.

One of the most threatened and most finite resources we have
may be roadless areas.  By actively managing a forest resource,
for instance, to protect it from wildfire, we change the essential
character.  We haven't preserved it.  Forests managed for
production may not resemble forests not so managed.

It's a losing battle, anyway.  The die is cast.  Development has
and will win over natural preservation.  We can at best delay
and shape the "progress".

Read _Last Chance to See_ [ISBN-13: 978-0345371980]
From 1992, but still entertaining and applicable to this topic.

Jon