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Pauline P. Reetz of Denver writes:

Jay Ambrose’s column of Monday, Oct. 29, makes it clear that he has joined the very group, the “would-be environmental saviors who do not understand the environment” whom he so freely condemns. The column only muddies the discussion of wildfire issues, and tries to create controversy where there isn’t any. Yes, our forests have changed from prehistoric times, due to fire suppression, but also due to the wholesale logging and over-cutting that went on in the last 150 years in some areas and perhaps due to global warming as well.
The real question - which Ambrose ingenuoously ignores - is whether we should thin forests in the backcountry, where building roads would cause erosion that in turn destroys streambeds and water quality. The roads also fragment and degrade wildlife habitat and encourage off-road vehicle use that contributes to the danger of forest fires nnd damages soils and vegetation. We have plenty of data now that suggest that fire can best clean out those backcountry forests.
Everyone agrees that we need to protect human life and property by thinning trees in the wildland-urban interface, where roads already exist, and also that homeowners living there have the responsibility to take reasonable precautions by installling fire-proof roofing, cutting trees close to their homes, keeping woodpiles a safe distance from the house, and so forth. Not much controversy there.
So what is Ambrose really saying? That we should resume the large-scale logging in the backcountry that destroyed watersheds and wildlife habitat and cost the taxpayers millions of dollars in timber subsidies? That we should road our last roadless areas for the profit of a few at great cost to the rest of us? No thank you.

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READER COMMENTS

pauline,You are another village idiot who read liberal propanganda who thinks she has an educated response to the situation,sorry I don't have the time,refuse to waste my time trying to educated another un-educated person like drew,truth,og and the rest of the village idiots.

Pauline you don't need to build roads to mitigate or "thin" the forest.
I know as I've worked on a mitigation crew for 7 years now. We have treated large areas of unpopulated space and have had to hike in to do this work where accesibility does not exist or if it is a forest service road not intended for motroized vehicles. You may need to cut roads for logging operations but for thinning we carried our equipment and then came back 6 months later and burned the slash we created.
You disingenuously ignorted researching what you wrote and therefor are wrong in your assertion to this effect.

City people. They live their lives in concrete jungles and have opinions about nature.

Maybe one of these days soon one of the "facts"Keith is going to acquaint us all with is just who the hell died and left him in charge.I'm starting to believe that megalomania and a deity complex is a genetic predisposition of the population of lower wingnuttistan

Keith reminds me of one of the chimpanzees who dance for Arby's food in their latest TV commercial. When they said that $5 college degrees were for sale, Keith was the first one to sign up. Megalomaniac is a good term for him...an egomaniac with an inferiority complex is just as good.

*****LAFFS*****

Pauline you just got nailed big time. Too funny, another liberal bites the dust.

*****LAFFS AGAIN*****

Thanks Queef for taking the time that you did

nice ANONYMOUS post again, 9:06 am! Another "liberal" bites the dust? ...another right-wingnut sounding foolish is more like it. Nothing more to offer than insults? ..don't bother, please...........Pauline makes some good points, but, unless the "Bushies" agree, she's an "idiot". Also, glad you don't have the time to educate the masses, Keith. We have enough blithering idiots posting as it is, and it would be refreshing to read these posts without having to read your pompous dialogues. Hope you're going to find a LIFE, and something besides spending all your time waiting to insult any poster who happens to disagree with you..!

"nice ANONYMOUS post again, 9:06 am! Another "liberal" bites the dust? ...another right-wingnut sounding foolish is more like it. Nothing more to offer than insults? ..don't bother, please...........Pauline makes some good points, but, unless the "Bushies" agree, she's an "idiot". Also, glad you don't have the time to educate the masses, Keith. We have enough blithering idiots posting as it is, and it would be refreshing to read these posts without having to read your pompous dialogues. Hope you're going to find a LIFE, and something besides spending all your time waiting to insult any poster who happens to disagree with you..!

Posted by roland on November 7, 2007 10:50 AM "

*****LAFFS EVEN HARDER*****

Roly Poly yoou say she makes good points! Which ones are good? You are a blathering idiot with no life. Look in a mirror man, just another liberal loser. Go road on the last roadless area you pinhead.

dont need no vironment, just stuff now to make our cars go and stuff. screw the future since we aint part of it.

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