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To: Ken Adams who wrote (152237)10/7/2007 6:57:55 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 225578
 
There is another way, which doesn't seem to be as palatable.

Forest Management.

Keep those pine trees growing with enough space so they have a thick cambium layer which pitches the bugs out and their populations collapse. That means thinning, which means logging.

We can't have that.

Well, OK, I don't want to log off the whole world, but some times forest management makes sense. Letting logs go to the beetles and fire doesn't, because we have 100 years of fire suppression to catch up on.

Which means great quantities of fuel on the ground.



To: Ken Adams who wrote (152237)10/8/2007 12:24:43 AM
From: Alan Smithee  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 225578
 
My wife commented on the devastation from the pine beetle after she visited Steamboat in June.

Colorado not going to be the same without pine trees.