Re: RE: trees

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

if you are speaking of the fires here in Montana, you are dead wrong...
these fires were NOT preventable , and they are barely containable....even
with every and all recourses known to man....on our fire alone we have 35
dozers, 7 excavators, 12 skijons, 35 water trucks, 15 helicopers, slurry
drop planes, 2,000 fire fighters, 28 fire engines, 15 saw crews, etc etc
etc....they're barely hanging on to it...the goal being just to keep it
somewhat contained...or at least moving away from homes...until the snows
come...NOTHING could have prevented these fires...except more moisture to
begin with...
----- Original Message -----
From: <Tivers@aol.com>
To: <RDCARRIE@aol.com>; <BMcCrary27@aol.com>; <bobmorris@rmci.net>
Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 10:20 PM
Subject: RC: RE: trees


> In a message dated 8/28/00 8:49:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
RDCARRIE@aol.com
> writes:
>
> << Umm, as a wildlife biologist involved directly with forest managemen, I
> have
>  to disagree here.  Some species of wildlife NEED the dense, heavily
forested
>  habitats you mention.  Others, as you correctly state, do not thrive in
it.
>  Deer are an example - they need early successional (younger, more open)
>  habitat to fine the types of browse they need.  There are plenty of
insects
>  in deep forest, and plenty of birds using them.  Some species that come
to
>  mind are Varied Thrushes and Winter Wrens in the northwest...I could name
>  more.  What about the famous (infamous?) Spotted Owl?
>   >>
>
>
> Well, we've just lost a few hundred thousand  acres to preventable, or at
> least containable,  forest fires. As a "wildlife biologist involved
directly
> with forest management", what's your excuse? Saving 75 trees for the
spotted
> owl took all your time? Confiscating another million acres for the federal
> government took all your fire control  resources?
>
> Perhaps it's time we asked for the same accountability from wildlife
> biologists that we're beginning to ask of other federal payrollees. Talk
is
> real cheap these days. Action, intelligent action, is a rarity.
>
> ti
>
>
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