Fire DOES release seeds. Ever hear of jack pine?
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Max <meadedil...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________ 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
