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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (133764)	3/27/2001 10:47:08 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 769667

I'm all for forestry, but my sphere of knowledge is limited to North America. Some tropical soils are nothing but organics from decomposed vegetation. When that is gone, there's nothing left. You have to be very careful and the technology is probably not well developed in most countries. Tropical hardwoods are very valuable. There is nothing wrong with managing for them intrinsically, if it's done properly. I think it is relatively difficult because the species diversity is immense and the environmental effects are not well-understood. I know a woman who went to Indonesia to advise on restoration after the fires they had down there. The fires were nothing but burning organics and her team had difficulty convincing the Indonesians that what they needed to do was isolate the burning organics by digging trenches with hand tools. The Indonesians insisted that they needed bulldozers and retardant air tankers because that's the kind of technology we sent down there as a political statement during the fires. Instead of helping them, we just blew a lot of money and educated them in the wrong methods. Now she and others have to undo it, which is very difficult. I knew an air tanker boss who went down there. He should have known better than to participate after seeing the conditions. He was notorious here as well, but that's another story.