From: Zbadba@yabbs
To: Grieves@yabbs
Subject: re: Fires
Date: Tue Aug  9 21:38:13 1994

Grieves, the reason the fires happening now are so bad is because of the 
Forest Service's actions! Of course, one can't blame the forest service 
alone- the timber industry is the other main culprit. The Forest Service, 
believeing it was helping to *prevent* fires, replanted areas burned out 
by fire. The only problem is that these new trees do not survive fires- 
they feed fires. Tho most of the old growth has been chopped down by the 
timber industry, what's left is destroyed because the flames are too 
intense (fed by the young trees). 

Conservation doesn't make things worse - meddling makes things worse. The 
Forest Service should do us all a service and let the forests recover 
naturally from fires and stop actively dousing wild forest fires. 
(focusing on protecting homes and lives would be a better expenditure of 
effort and capital.)