08-13-2003, 01:30 PM
OK, all of you concrete walkers, here's some conter-intuitive facts concerning forests.
Forest need/count on trama around every 40 years. It needs this to support a diverse habitat. If it wasn't for forest fires, you would have freak environmental zones like the Redwood forest in Cali. That forest supports nothing but those trees. There is no underbrush that allows rabbits to hide in, there is no new growth, nothing. Also, for many species of trees, they will stand twice as long as their life time. Eventually a tree will outgrow it's ability to provide all of its cells with water and photosynthesis. What then happens is that the trunk of the tree will dry out and start to rot from the inside. There may be folliage at the top, but the tree is just waiting to die. If you leave a section of a forest like that for too long of a time, you get a tinder box: a single spark on a pine needle will send the entire tree ablaze in minutes.
It's funny how some environmentalists don't want to study an environment and how it works but would rather artifically protect aspects of an environment and thereby ruin the entire environment.
Forest need/count on trama around every 40 years. It needs this to support a diverse habitat. If it wasn't for forest fires, you would have freak environmental zones like the Redwood forest in Cali. That forest supports nothing but those trees. There is no underbrush that allows rabbits to hide in, there is no new growth, nothing. Also, for many species of trees, they will stand twice as long as their life time. Eventually a tree will outgrow it's ability to provide all of its cells with water and photosynthesis. What then happens is that the trunk of the tree will dry out and start to rot from the inside. There may be folliage at the top, but the tree is just waiting to die. If you leave a section of a forest like that for too long of a time, you get a tinder box: a single spark on a pine needle will send the entire tree ablaze in minutes.
It's funny how some environmentalists don't want to study an environment and how it works but would rather artifically protect aspects of an environment and thereby ruin the entire environment.
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<center>Boy the way Glen Miller played,
songs that made the hit parade,
guys like us we had it made,
those were the days,
and you know where you were then,
girls were girls and men were men,
mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again,
didn't need no welfare states
everybody pulled his weight,
gee our old Lasalle ran great,
those were the days!</center>
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<center>Boy the way Glen Miller played,
songs that made the hit parade,
guys like us we had it made,
those were the days,
and you know where you were then,
girls were girls and men were men,
mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again,
didn't need no welfare states
everybody pulled his weight,
gee our old Lasalle ran great,
those were the days!</center>