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Wildfires spark Congress timber debate
Oregon Live/ The Oregonian ^
| 6 August 2002
| MICHAEL MILSTEIN
Posted on 08/06/2002 12:55:26 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: madfly
Thanks for the heads up!
To: Grampa Dave
Hi, Gramps! Thanks for the ping. I just arrived home after 11 hours of babysitting.
Sorry about the breaking news...I don't agree with that decision, but I don't run the place.
Bumping this one back up...
To: attagirl
For the semi arid evergreen forests of the intermountain West, clearcuts are just as bad as the raging forest fires. There are clearcuts in the county I live in, Idaho county in Idaho, that were logged in the sixties and there still aren't any trees growing there. Just massive brush patches. This despite several attempts to plant trees by hand. Selective harvesting mature trees over large acreages with helicopters would be far better for long term forest health than clearcutting small acreages. And temporary haul roads that are removed shortly after harvesting would be better than the $1 million/mile permanent roads that Washington D.C. likes. And far less costly.
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08/06/2002 8:25:44 PM PDT
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yoswif
To: OregonRancher
Your post is an eye-opener. Sounds like more like Colombia than the great NW/
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08/06/2002 9:49:28 PM PDT
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attagirl
To: madfly
BTTT!!!!!!
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08/07/2002 3:14:54 AM PDT
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E.G.C.
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