Bush says forests need to be thinned

[Sloats]

Originally posted by The Brain

Originally posted by Sloats
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.

Exactly. Forest fires are nature's way of cleansing dead vegetation, and rereleasing the soil for use by new plant life. What these guys are really trying to do is protect landowner's property.

Ever notice whenever these major forest fires are happening in California, or Montana, the news reports that the threaten "local residents"?

Here's a thought... MOVE AWAY FROM THE FUCKING FOREST! No one told them to plunk their home way out in the sub-suburbs. This ain't the Old West times anymore; we have cities dammit, we should all live in them-- unless you are a fucking farmer, and even then, a forest region isn't exactly ideal to you.

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This country is way too fucking stupid to handle that shit.

Thank God for the Founding Fathers. Even they knew the vast majority of the local citizenry would be either too uninformed (stupid) or too lazy to make rational decisions concerning this nation's furture. The E.C. is a go-between, just like Congress.

I'm sorry, but I love living amonst trees. Cities suck. Plain and simple. I need my space, clean air, huge buffers between me and other people.

:tog: Plus, black people get really nervous when they are around really tall trees, so I know I am safe.:/tog: