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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: TigerPaw who wrote (14970)	9/26/2002 2:29:48 AM
From: Raymond Duray	of 93284

TigerPaw, Re: I don't have numbers handy, But it is my understanding that some 80% of the national forests have been cut at some time In the Pacific Northwest, including Washington, Oregon and Idaho, 98% of all old-growth virgin forests have been harvested. Alaska, where Dave can't see the forest for the trees, is the only part of the nation that hasn't been aggressively harvested to near complete extinction of old-growth timber. Not for lack of trying. <g> Bush's scheme to cut the last of the old-growth in the name of fire safety is a cruel hoax. Old growth forests such as we have here in the PNW are substantially less prone to catastrophic crown fires than the second and third growth stands that are the location of vast new human development. In old growth pine and fir forests, the number of large trees is around 50 trees per acre in healthy stands. In most of the previously harvested areas that are the prime fire areas, the count of trees is often up to 1,500 per acre. It is this over-crowding that is the prime cause of the hot crown fires spreading in firestorms. Cutting the old growth does absolutely nothing to protect communities form fire damage.

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