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To: paret who wrote (922)	9/25/2005 10:10:39 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1118

the massive fires now raging in Southern California, that have so far killed 20 people, burned about a half-million acres and hundreds of homes ... reported the warnings of a recently retired U.S. Forest Service Ranger who had lived and worked in the forests of Northern California for more than 60 years. ... The plan reduced the rate of logging on 13 national forests in the western parts of Washington, Oregon, and California by about 85 percent." ... , "everything in the woods can be used. Nothing needs to be burned. Portable chippers can be brought in to chip up the slash (i.e. branches and underbrush) for waferboard that is used for building. Keeping the underbrush under control would prevent the worst damage of wildfires and firestorms that destroy million of trees, millions of dollars worth of property and sometimes kill firefighters. We are now either burning on purpose or letting wildfires consume millions of acres of trees, yet the Black Forest in Germany has been preserved for hundreds of years by good management that picks up every fallen branch to prevent fires." ... This is really not a complicated problem. Crowded trees, underbrush and water shortages cause trees to die and become diseased. Mother Nature´s method of solving the problem is a huge bonfire to clean up the mess and start all over with a clean slate. Human beings with a brain can use the wood in crowded stands of trees, now even the underbrush, and that keeps the remaining trees healthy and alive. Fire kills the trees, the animals, birds, and insects – including the Spotted Owls – and sometimes people. Last time i checked, lumber imports were up. with production down, do you wonder why?