on those arsonists...er...i mean WILDfires

From: ulrich stuart <smilicoyoti [at] yahoo.com>
Date: Tue Aug 20, 2002 1:05 pm
Subject: on those "wild" fires

Industry lobbyists and their good-old-boy network pundits are arguing that the wildfires wouldn't happen if we just logged with no holds barred. First, the more feul that is present to burn, the SLOWER IS THE GEOGRAPHIC ADVANCEMENT OF FIRE. Secondly, more trees means more canopy which, in turn, means more retainment of moisture - fire's arch-rival...water.

Most importantly, as far as the industry's PR goes, the two biggest fires (if not 3 out of 4) were STARTED BY WORKERS CONTRACTED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERMMENT. These are not "wild" fires. I have yet to hear the timber industry or their D.C. marionettes talk about the need to restrain these arsonists. By the way, the prosecution that is taking on Terry Barton (the COLORADO arsonist) have said that the fire looks as if it was "staged to look like a campfire that got out of control."

Burning Agenda - The worst fire season in memory is being used for political purposes, Eugene Weekly
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/archive/08_15_02/coverstory.html

Wildfires and Salvage Logging - The Beschta Report, [PDF] edited by J. Boone Kauffman
http://cbfinfo.com/cbf/wapro/Fire/SCI-SLVG.pdf

Fight Fire With Logging?, MotherJones
http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/features/news/fireplan.html

Fighting Forests With Fire: A Soldier's Story Timothy Ingalsbee,
Ph.D. Director, Western Fire Ecology Center
http://www.fire-ecology.org/research/soldiers_story.htm

Logging without limits isn't a solution to wildfires, Oregonian
http://www.oregonlive.com/commentary/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/editorial/1028634965115050.xml

Arson and "Salvage" Logging
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psy-op/message/9145

The Truth about Logging and Wildfires
http://www.wildrockies.org/wildfire/

Oregon is burning
http://austin.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3403&group=webcast

More on Oregon Fire
http://www.missoulian.com/display/inn_news/z2.txt