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Originally Posted by richlevy
Environmental issues are of long term importance to everyone. One of the reasons we are having issues with flooding is deforestation and the loss of watershed through aggressive, poorly planned development. If too much green goes, all we'll have left to breathe is CO2.
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and if we have no thinning like the policies have required in recent years, states like arizona will continue to lose hundreds of thousands of acres each year to uncontrollable wild fires. walking through the forests in arizona it is easy to see why the state loses more and more forest each year - dead trees lie where they fall, areas with dieing trees choke out the new growth underneath waiting for the next lightening strike or whatever the catalyst may be this time. when it starts, it is difficult to stop.
i don't support unregulated stripping of the timberland but the idea that we are helping the environment by keeping a hands off policy is mistaken.
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US forests are already, if anything over harvested, not under. This is especially true in the arid west where trees simply don't grow back at the rate they do in the Pacific Northwest and the South.
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i couldn't speak to CO's condition, but in arizona, which is extremely arid (but it's a dry heat
) the problem is that there is too much fuel for a fire. once it starts, there is little chance of stopping or diverting it.