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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (342646)7/10/2007 2:31:09 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1575616
 
Ted, > In a natural setting, a fire started by a lightning strike is nature's way of keeping things in balance. However, fires started by man in the same area repeatedly is of little benefit to the ecology and does more damage than good.

It doesn't matter how the fires were set. We live in a developed world now. Overgrowth of forests will naturally result as we continue to fight fires and do whatever else we want to do to preserve what we think is "nature."

Of course, it matters how the fires were started. Most of the fires started by Man are near developed areas. That means the same areas get exposed to fires repeatedly. Whereas with lightning strikes they happen once and then don't happen again for many years. You know that old adage.....lightning never hits the same area twice. That allows the forest to replace the burned out trees over time in a natural way.

You're from Portland....were you not aware of the process which Mt St Helen's is experiencing, replacing the flora destroyed in the 1980 eruption? If not I suggest you google Mt. St Helen's and read about the various stages nature goes through to replace something destroyed naturally.

Meanwhile, with all of this overgrowth going on, how much room is there to save a tree and help reduce global warming?

What overgrowth? There isn't any overgrowth. New trees are not needed in unmolested forests.....the forests provide for their own. Its the areas where Man has cut down trees for development that need the new trees.
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