The logging industry has only an indirect connection to the fire problems in the US. The extent that the commercial forest industry is involved is that they view fire supression as saving harvestable timber from destruction(in a selfish way, because they consider all public timber ~theirs~). The real fire problem in this country is the result of, as stated before, idiots building where they really have no business living in the first place. This leads to tax based population needing protection from nature as well as what the population considers "their" natural resources that must be protected. This is not new but an escalating problem that has rapidly accelerated in the last 50 years as fire fighting and spotting has gotten better. Slowly the realization is getting through that a "let burn" policy is best for everyone. Nature takes care of itself just fine if allowed to operate unimpeded.
Not that the above has much to do with the problems in AU right now. It should be obvious to most people that nature can absorb a lot of our mistakes but when nature is stressed, it's those mistakes that decide the severity of the "natural disaster" that befalls us. On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:18:16 -0500 - Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following Re: Re: <OT> Re: Big problems in Oz >On Thursday 05 December 2002 23:30, Collins wrote: >> On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:04:09 -0600 ronnie gauthier >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > If 200 naked dancing fillies doesn't do it then towing an iceburg >is> > a last resort. Does AU have any desalination plants? >> > >> > On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:59:12 -0500 - "Leon A. Goldstein" >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following >> > Re: Re: <OT> Re: Big problems in Oz >> > >> > >Jerry McBride wrote: >> > >> If my memory serves me... Here in the states, for year 2002... >> > > >> > >the 48> continental states reported some measure of drought >> > >effects, >> >> Memory serves you right. The mountain and western states had the >> worst growth and forrest fires in about 100 years (Colorado most >> especially). I don't know how that sort of thing is handled down >> under, but many people believe that the severest problems were >created> by several decades of failure to prune old growth forrests >> (environmentalist wackos would never allow that) which become >> tinderboxes with passage of time. >> >> Fire is part of the natural world's forest management technique. >After every fire there is a revitalization of burned areas. Fire only >becomes a problem when people with more money and greed than brains >build their houses (or should I call them real estate investments?) in >the middle of the forest. As for pruning the old growth, that's just >lumber industry baffle garb for clear cutting the old growth forest's >500 year old Douglas Fir and 1000 year old redwoods to make picnic >tables for yuppies and more houses deeper in the forests. > > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
