<OT> Re: Big problems in Oz

[Robert Black Eagle]

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On Friday 06 December 2002 8:58 am, Bob Hemus wrote:
> 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
> <snip>.  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.
>
> It doesn't take pruning old growth forests, it takes burning.  The
> pruned, logged and replanted cut blocks explode when subjected to
> lightening.  Here in the NW the lack of natural fires has caused the
> problems we now have.  Burning kills the bugs, underbrush and keeps
> the spacing od the trees the old timers called "punkins".  The last
> punkin I had anything to do with was in 1978.  It was a doug fir 11
> feet on the stump.  Trees that big won't grow with 12 foot spacing we
> did when I was thinning trees.  My oldest boy and I contracted with
> the USFS to thin trees in '71,'72, '& '73. I worked several summers
> later for a logging outfit.
> Bob
>
> Maybe thiss ought to go to general?

Got a report from an expert in forestry that argues that the newsmedia 
simply jumped on the excuse that allowed them to blame someone.  After 
all, nature doesn't have large forest fires (yeah!  right!).  If you're 
interested, I can send you the text (it's HTML, so you can read it in a 
browser).

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Robert Black Eagle	
One gets wise only after being stupid.
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