"Larry Caldwell" wrote in message
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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.

Thanks Larry for your post. It really supports the 'Burning Questions'
article in the Nov, 2002 issue of scientific american that natural fires of
the low intensity sort tend to form natural 'thinning' and 'brush clearing'
which allow the move from a forest of spindly 'doghair' trees to a mature
forest with well spaced and large diameter trees in stately columns (the
surviving trees, grown to maturity)