Despite one of the worst fire seasons in the park in 50 years, it's been a benign summer in the
(Aozotorp) wrote in message ... Benign" meaning it hasn't been as bad as two of the last 4 years? Only about 2 million acres?!?! The bulk of the fire season is still ahead and massive fires are probable in the coming 2 months. Here on the Sequoia, where I've been working, we've had a very unusual period of humid weather with thunderstorms. For a few days it felt like I was back in the South with 98 degree temps and light rain. I see! Failure to read for content! Nah! I did read it all and fully understood the slant underlying the use of the word "benign". Yep, you folks are trying to convince the public that hundreds of thousands of acres of high burn intensity is "normal". That 2 million burned acres at this point in the fire season is fine and dandy. Ask the people who lost loved ones or property if this "benign" fire season is a good thing. Also, are burned National Parks fine with you folks? Whatever happened to the "let-burn" policy? Are you now in favor of stopping a "natural" process to "save" all those purty trees? Should we be paying out big bucks to forestall the inevitable? You folks obviously don't know just WHAT you want. Larry, a true environmentalist Right = and the French Riviera, Canada and most of the rest of Europe have been compelled to stop sane forestry due to environmentalists = Not! http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28155924.htm http://www.news.com.au/common/story_...5E1702,00.html http://www.iht.com/articles/105115.html http://technology.nzoom.com/technolo...13-380,00.html http://technology.nzoom.com/technolo...13-380,00.html http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stori.../45643/1/.html http://www.terradaily.com/2003/03072....uynzo4ee.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/wo...00/3121143.stm Now let us remember the excerpt I had in the original article: excerpt: What's remarkable in Montana, notes Amy Vanderbilt, Glacier Park spokeswoman, is how fast the forest, dampened by a relatively moist spring, has turned tinder dry, parched by high temperatures and and breezy, rainless thunderstorms that bring lightning strikes. "The kind of fire behavior we're witnessing is different from what we've seen in the past," says Ms. Vanderbilt, who also worked in Yellowstone during the 1988 fires.... |
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