Re: RC: trees

["Sandy Bolinger" <bolinger@bigsky.net>]

READ "PLAYING GOD IN YELLOWSTONE" must reading for EVERYONE who wants a
better understanding of how "we've" manged to mess things up during the past
80 years....then head on out here and help fight these fires...I'm driving
equipment for the firefighters now...I get to see the fires first hand....we
had one fire burn through an area that had been fried by a huge fire in the
sixties...everyone thought when it got there it would stop or at least slow
down---it went right on through like a freight train---went through the
clear cuts, the thinned areas..the houses....whent through EVERYTHING...No
amount of management would have changed the behaviour of that particular
fire---when God decides to have a pyro moment---watch out!

----- Original Message -----
From: <guest@endurance.net>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 6:41 AM
Subject: RC: RC: trees


> Barb Peck bpeck@together.net
> Barb Peck
> bpeck@together.net
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> >Bob Morris said:
> > One question for you. Every one is concerned about old growth
> > trees. If we had nothing but old growth, where would the new
> > trees come from to replace the old ones as they die?
> > And they do die from many non-man causes.
>
> Bob:
> Without intervention from humans,
> Nature, by it's nature balances life, including trees.
> So we would NEVER have "nothing but old growth".
> Anything that has managed to live for 300 to 500 years has
> my respect.  And, furthermore, anything that has managed
> to survive, that long,  should be allowed to die of natural causes,
whether
> that be lightning,  wind or water or fire. Not consumed by man
> because of it's value.
>
> If you can understand so fully about big money in endurance
> and how a horse can just be the means to an end, why is it
> this topic is such a stretch for you?
> Or are you just playing devils advocate?
>
> Barb
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