Cascadia's Ecosytem Advocates (www.eco-advocates.org) brings ecologist George Wuerthner to Eugene. The editor of "Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy," peels away the 'greenwash' designed to create an atmosphere where timber companies join other large corporations and government agencies to further plunder our already over-logged forests.
Informative, clear, and pictoral! Fire's many positive features--it is perhaps the most consistent and accurate long-term pruning and thinning regime in the world! Our lands are such a patchwork & differently tended & managed lots so any thinning regime we attempt will be confused and contradicted by others non-management or excessive cutting increasing instability and differing results. Over time fire, insects, and disease will even things out, perhaps in uneven way chronologically-hard core
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