20-10-2002, 04:35 AM
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Not So Good
In article ,
writes:
Good post, Larry! "Only" 191,000 acres burned at medium to high
intensity! Wooo hoo!! Many wildweness areas are set aside because
they had little in the way of resources to extract. Much of that area
will now take a hundred years or more to recover, as long as another
fire doesn't come in and re-burn the rest of the unburned fuels. (Not
that I would want to salvage any of it. It's a wilderness, after all)
Of course, no reforestation can occur, either. Fires are "natural",
right? G
While the Biscuit fire did start in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness Area, much
of the acreage burned was resource land in the Siskiyou National Forest.
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"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can
bribe the people with their own money."
-- Alexis de Tocquevile
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