"Larry Harrell" wrote in message
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"Jerry" wrote in message
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"Larry Harrell" wrote in message
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"Jerry" wrote in message
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Yes, a good incentive for unemployed forest service workers to get
work.
Simply burn the forest and harvest the burnt timber.


USFS timber folks do not torch forests.

I'm not talking about USFS people, I'm talking timber company people.
The
above statement was a general description meant to describe those
working
for the logging companies.

Jerry

Then, why not thwart those attempting to use arson to harvest timber
by thinning forests at risk?

Good God, cut the trees so the lumber companies can't cut them down AFTER
they burn them?!!!! What a reasonable program that would be?

And, not by giving into what they want
but, to thin in the way that most benefits our forests. Also at issue
is the real threat that our forests could be terrorist targets (perish
the thought). What kind of damage could 20 arsonists who know what
they're doing wreak upon our sickly and overstocked forests on a windy
fall day?

We've got enough of those screwy (domestic) "burn terrorists" as it is
burning down our forests.

Thinned roadside corridors should be a priority to combat
threats, both from abroad and domestically. I've been afraid to
propose the potential but, if we don't mull it over and maybe deal
with it, we may be taken by surprise.

Let's not get carried away with this foreign terrorist theory! Sounds like
another Bush propoganda ploy to get big businesses hands on our forests.
I'm in favor of keeping the roadsides thinned but the rest should be
controlled by perscribed burns every once-in-a-while.

Jerry