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To: goldworldnet who wrote (160135)	7/11/2001 11:18:23 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Last year was the worst U.S. wildfire season in 50 years, and a scorching hot summer and a devastating drought in the U.S. Northwest this year could lead to even greater damage, fire officials have said. Last year was the worst and this year will be as bad or worse. The Pacific Northwest is tinder dry.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (160135)	7/12/2001 12:08:05 AM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 769670

The deaths of these firefighters is indeed tragic. When I learned about the 14 deaths at the Storm King Mountain fire in Colorado I surmised that one of the ten standard orders of fire fighting had been violated. I was wrong. I read the complete findings of the investigation team. Nine of the ten had been violated. We are going to see more and more of this. Contrary to what many would have us believe, forest management works against global warming. It emulates nature's old patterns of burn, regrow, mature, burn, repeat. Carbon that was formerly released to the atmosphere through respiration of the decay organisms is bound up in people's houses, books, magazines, and so forth. New, fast growing forests take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere at a much higher rate than "old growth," forming a kind of carbon sink. New, fast growing forests produce a lot of oxygen, much more than old growth which in the long run balances death and decay with new growth. New, fast growing forests are relatively fire resistant. I've watched many fires stop when they migrate into new, fast growing forests. New, fast growing forests are interspersed with other barriers to fire. The "environmentalist" lobby has successfully demonized forest management, and because of this, we will see more young men and women perish trying to put more, bigger, and hotter fires out.