On Tuesday, June 04, 2013 12:08 PM Curt Raymond wrote ... Fire is natures forest refresher.
----------------------------------- In a prior life I had some responsibility for the test range at Eglin AFB in the FL panhandle. We accidently started a lot of fires there with various munitions tests. In most cases, the fires were simply allowed to burn themselves out. The professional range management group (AKA Jackson Guard) also used controlled burns to manage the remaining "excess buildup of fuel", which could cause dangerous fires. There was an endangered species that had a great deal of habitat on that range: the red cockaded woodpecker. The interesting part was that the woodpecker nests were always located on the periphery of our cleared bombing areas. It turned out that this endangered species only nested in areas where excess ground cover had been burned off but the old trees survived. But FL is not NM (where I also have lived). Burned-off areas in FL re-grow almost immediately, especially if the large trees survived the fire (typical unless excess fuel was present). Not so in the arid areas of the Southwest US. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
