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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor
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To: long-gone who wrote (89086)8/25/2002 4:51:13 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) of 116756
 
With mining buildings in Canada, usually always in forested areas, it was law that they maintained a water tower, and cleared for x 100 feet from the nearest building. Many communities in the far north of Ontario, like Pickle Lake and Red Lake have fire breaks cut around the towns. I see where forest conservationists are going with trying to preserve every iddy bit of natural growth, but there are times when the slavish naturalism works against you and just perpetuates a hazard that will guarantee more disaster.

This is a multi headed coin. One one side nature has been burning will-nilly for years and it helps rejuvenate forests. It's her way of getting things replanted and starting all over. If forest fires did not burn we would never see Jack Pine stands as the cones will only open at 135 degrees farenheit. (Ever wonder why you see those uniform Jack Pine parks? Now you know why. They are all the same age as the last big drought and fire.) Burning is not cutting, and there is more fecundity in a partially burnt forest than there is in a cut one. So the Australians are leaning toward letting things burn a bit. On the other hand, man has cut so much that he can ill afford the waste of letting nature go one better, and burn him and her out of house and home. Gotta draw the line somewhere, so if we put the State legislature right smack dab in the middle of some choked up piece of never-thinned forest the line would be drawn reasonably and right quick after the first forest fire.

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