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To: Drygulch Dan who wrote (283)	11/5/2008 10:21:36 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 531

I can't do better than that, Drygulch. You nailed it. This summer I got a glimpse of the inevitable result when I was on a fire lookout in the River of No Return Wilderness. We had fires on 2/3 of our horizon. Biggest was about 30,000 acres, smallest a couple thousand acres, all afire, releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. That's a natural consequence of keeping fire out of the wilderness for 100 years, and then finding out we should have let them burn periodically. Experts say it might take 200 years to get back to the natural level where we were a century ago. The work around in managed forests is to harvest the timber periodically and sequester the carbon in lumber, houses, and so forth. The energy equivalent of an acre of forest land is about 300 gallons of gasoline per acre per year captured from the sun and combined with water and nutrients to create biomass. It's a lot.