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To: LLCF who wrote (32883)	11/26/2004 2:27:49 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39344

No DAK, you are unclear on the concept - the beetle attacks standing wood ['on the stump' means green, uncut, still growing] ... in the problem areas, nobody fell anything pre-bug, and that is part of the problem, as the natural process of fire was also suppressed, resulting in stands more susceptible to the bug Lots of info available from this page - for.gov.bc.ca Briefly, due to a succession of mild winters following about fifty years of fire suppression, the mountain pine beetle population, which was always present in smaller numbers and scattered patches, has exploded and is killing large areas of timber .... much of the wood can be salvaged from these areas, which cuts the economic loss, but more importantly can help to slow down the spread of the bug Only thing that will really knock back the infestation is a long cold winter, the sort the interior used to get years ago, in the meantime we just have to muddle on through, and we're presented with the question - Do we just leave wood on the stump to dry up and thus become an even greater fire hazard, or do we salvage what we can, and thus salvage a few jobs out of it? You jumped straight to an anti-forestry position, tsk tsk ... there's lots of legitimate criticism can be made of the industry, but if you try to replace all wood products with plastic and metals, you'll find you have considerably advanced the date of oil running out, and made a lot more great bloody holes in the ground than were necessary ...