<OT> Re: Big problems in Oz

[Lee]

On Thursday 05 December 2002 23:30, Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:04:09 -0600 ronnie gauthier
>
> <ronnieg at chartermi.net> wrote:
> > If 200 naked dancing fillies doesn't do it then towing an iceburg is
> > a last resort. Does AU have any desalination plants?
> >
> > On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:59:12 -0500 - "Leon A. Goldstein"
> > <metapsych at earthlink.net> wrote the following
> > Re: Re: <OT> Re: Big problems in Oz
> >
> > >Jerry McBride wrote:
> > >> If my memory serves me... Here in the states, for year 2002...
> > >
> > >the 48> continental states reported some measure of drought
> > >effects,
>
> Memory serves you right.  The mountain and western states had the
> worst growth and forrest fires in about 100 years (Colorado most
> especially).  I don't know how that sort of thing is handled down
> under, but many people believe that the severest problems were created
> by several decades of failure to prune old growth forrests
> (environmentalist wackos would never allow that) which become
> tinderboxes with passage of time.
>
> Fire is part of the natural world's forest management technique. After every 
fire there is a revitalization of burned areas. Fire only becomes a problem 
when people with more money and greed than brains build their houses (or 
should I call them real estate investments?) in the middle of the forest. As 
for pruning the old growth,  that's just lumber industry baffle garb for 
clear cutting the old growth forest's 500 year old Douglas Fir and 1000 year 
old redwoods to make picnic tables for yuppies and more houses deeper in the 
forests.