Thread: New Age Forestry?
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Old 21-12-2002, 10:09 PM
Larry Caldwell
 
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Default New Age Forestry?
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However, It's not a new idea and I have been pushing it for 10 years.
Everyone wants fire resistance in our forests but don't see the bigger
picture of drought resistance. They often go hand in hand and should
be linked in the treatments. A drought resistant forest should also be
fire resistant when treatments are complete.

I have been wondering how the general public is going to accept all the
smoke. If they want to minimize fuel loading they are going to have to
burn pretty frequently, particularly if there are some really flush years
that cause heavy fuel buildup, if there is a windstorm that puts a lot of
fuel on the ground, or an ice storm that does the same. They may be able
to burn some sites on a 20 year rotation, but I bet lots of sites require
a 10 year burn cycle. The cool fires they want are also the ones that
generate the most particulates and partial combustion products. If you
do a controlled burn on 10% of the forests in Oregon and Washington, you
would be smelling the smoke in Iowa!

I don't think they have come to the realization that burning that much
forest would pollute the airshed for the entire North American continent.


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