I mean no insult to your father. He sounds as if he was a knowledgable and dedicated man. Be did he set policy or just carry it through. The NFS policy wonks seemed to be, in most cases, ignorant of the role fire played forest and wetland ecology.
The policies promulgated to the Kisatchie and DeSoto forests at least were poorly thought through and implemented. The US Army did a better job of maintaining the Kistachie forest as a training area than NFS employees did as a forest. Fire is very important to the health of a forest, but the NFS policies are set in DC, not in the regions where the forests need assistance. Today I can drive 3 hours to a forest that has not seen a fire in 30 years. It is impossible to traverse through portions of it because of the understory. The understory has taken away habitat for endangered species such as gopher tortoise, pine snake and red-cockaded woodpecker. All I was saying in my original post was that the forests nation wide need to have either fire ecology reintroduced immediately or allow them to managed through forestry harvest practices. Otherwise we will see more devastating wild fires. > I am sure this is oversimplified and there are many other factors, but > I believe the NSF has a good understanding of fire and forest health > and work towards that goal whenever they can > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:241246 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
