mmm. The Cerro Grande fire was started by a prescribed burn. For those outside the state, this pretty much devastated the city of Los Alamos and came within a few feet of a nuclear weapons lab. Anyway, I think this may have made them nervous.
Dana On 8/24/07, Russel Madere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No it hasn't. For a century the policy of the NFS has been to put the fire > out by 10 am the next day. Remember Smokey the Bear? That is what has > caused the problem. The NFS has also allowed all of thier land to get way > overgrown with both trees and understory. > > I will say is select areas they and BLM are allowing fires to burn out and > have reintroduced fire ecology. However, they are still planting non-fire > resitant trees (loblolly pine) instead of the fire resitant tree (long leaf > pine) in the pine forests here in the south. > > The NFS people I have met here in the south would be lucky to find thier > asses with both hands and a road map. > > A properly maintained forest should look like a park with a tree density of > between 150 and 500 trees per acre and no or little understory. The are are > plots of USFS land that have densities approaching 10000 trees per acre. > > And this isn't just aproblem in the south. In Colorado, there are places > under NFS stewardship that have been allowed to overgrow badly. I have seen > photographs from the 1930 and from 2000 of places in Colorado and the forest > density is significantly denser today than 70 years ago. > > > The latter has been the rule for several decades now, at least for > > lands managed by the National Forest Service. The trouble is with > > 'unpopulated'. With our ever spreading population that area is > > getting smaller and smaller. These horrible fires are in places where > > some developer went in and built a huge subdivision spreading through > > the woods. Then those who buy the properties do not or will not > > understand the requirements to maintain their land. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:241247 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
