History Forum / General / British History / December 2005

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http://www.evergreenmagazine.com/index2.html

Evergreem magazine and its related fopundation are of course simply Bush
clonses

 The non-profit Evergreen Foundation is a strong supporter of the
President’s numerous forest health initiatives. Since 1994 we have
published three special issues of Evergreen Magazine profiling the
underlying causes of the catastrophic wildfires that are sweeping the
West’s federal forests. The causes are many but none loom larger than
the unanticipated long-simmering ecological impacts of the nation’s
still widely supported 1910 decision to exclude wildfire from forests.

              If you’ve read our special reports you know – as do we –
that our western national forest heritage is in very serious trouble.
Last year, alone, more than 7 million acres were lost in stand-replacing
wildfires. It was the second worst wildfire season in 50 years. Much of
the West is entering its sixth straight year of drought, so there is a
strong possibility the 2003 fire season will be just as bad as 2002,
perhaps worse.

              Forest ecologists most familiar with the West’s wildfire
crisis continue to urge implementation of thinning and forest
restoration programs designed to reduce woody debris accumulations,
remove diseased, dead and dying trees from overstocked stands and
encourage growth in native vegetation.

              Save for the most radical environmental groups, Americans
in increasing number support the President’s Healthy Forests Initiative.
Recent opinion polls provide clear evidence the country is no longer
willing to accept the environmental, economic and cultural losses the
West’s catastrophic wildfires are causing.

              The road that lies ahead is long. Government reports
estimate at least 190 million western federal acres need treatment of
one kind or another: thinning, prescribed fire or a combination of the
two. In Oregon, alone, 86 percent of all national forest acres are in
Condition Class 3 or 2 – meaning the risk of catastrophic fire is either
high or moderate and growing. Across the West, millions of acres of
legally classified critical wildlife habitat – for salmon, steelhead,
grizzly bears, spotted owls and others – are at high risk.

               It will take least 50 years – perhaps longer – to
restore a more natural range of disturbance patterns in fire-prone
western federal forests. The serious work must begin soon, lest our
losses multiply on a scale not seen since the Great 1910 fire – a
colossus that swept across 3 million acres in northern Idaho and western
Montana in just two days.

               We urge you to bookmark this section for quick
reference. We will be adding new material weekly: fact sheets, briefing
papers, question and answer sheets and other information designed to
keep you abreast of congressional progress in implementing the
President’s many initiatives.

NOTE:  Check out   http://capwiz.com/landsense/home/  to make comments
on the President's Healthy Forests Initiative.

theya re of course an integral part of the tree cutting lobby

http://www.forestindustry.com/archive/Forestry/f-assoc.htm

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