Once you realize that those who call themselves "environmentalist" are really frauds who use the law and the courts to extort money from individuals and corporations, your eyes can be opened to the lies they use. Pine cones that only open with fire to release seeds is one of those lies. Have you ever seen a squirrel eat a pine cone? "Forest fires are natural and therefore good" is another lie. Fire is terribly destructive. Controlled burns can be beneficial in that they can remove fuel to prevent a worse fire in the future, but they are simply one tool used to manage forests.
Sorry for ranting, I simply get very incensed about such destructive fraud, which I think is another manifestation of too big government eroding more of our liberty. -- Max Dillon Charleston, SC '95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20 Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: >I suspect a lot of that has to do with where "here" and "there" are. To >get the ground to turn into glass here in New England would require >tremendous heat as even when its very dry its still fairly wet. If you >were already starting from fairly dry I suspect that you'd require less >heat to dry things out before glassifying and your forests would burn >much more readily and more easily create more heat. As you've got a lot >less under brush I'd bet the winds whip up a lot better in a fire too. > >Huge regional variation across this great land of ours yet it seems >like our political idiots feel like one management schema always makes >the most sense. > >-Curt > >Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 11:22:11 -0600 >From: Craig <diese...@pisquared.net> >To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >Subject: Re: [MBZ] From wet to dry ... >Message-ID: <20130604112211.e7ec073d49af7c0c1f44b...@pisquared.net> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > >On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 09:08:13 -0700 (PDT) Curt Raymond ><curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> "The sterilized ground left behind won't support much life at all for >> years" Now Max that part just isn't true at all. The ground isn't >> sterilized and life comes back almost immediately. There are even >> plants (mostly trees I think) that REQUIRE fire before their seeds >will >> open. >> >> Fire is natures forest refresher. > >What you say, Curt, is true for small forest fires, those that don't >get >very hot. For very large, very hot fires, however, that is not true. >The >top surface of the soil is glazed like glass and repels water. All of >the >vegetative material, even that below the soil, is destroyed. > >We have had those kinds of fires near where we live here in New Mexico. > > >Craig > >_______________________________________ >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 _______________________________________ 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
