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To: TigerPaw who wrote (186918)	9/26/2001 10:47:44 AM
From: H-Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You decry mud slinging, then in your next post: Are you sure your experience with forestry extends beyond building forts with Lincoln Logs? Makes the previous post kinda hollow don't you think ?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (186918)	9/27/2001 3:46:14 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I know exactly how old growth is different from second growth, but you don't. Old growth is different. Different, not better. Just different. The ecosystems (creatures and plants, as you put it) around old growth developed around old growth, just as the creatures and plants around second growth developed in second growth. Old growth as you know it exists because we kept fire out of it for a century or so. Before that, fire visited regularly. There is nothing particularly natural about old growth in the lower 48. Even in Southeast Alaska where I live, and where we have some 27 different kinds of old growth, change is a constant even though it is too wet to burn. Wind is the agent of change up here. I once played with Lincoln logs but I grew up. You watched Fern Gully the "last" Rain Forest, but you never did. You still believe the pack of lies it fed you.