Reply #15: Well, you're just wrong

[sandnsea]

Here's two articles about Yellowstone. The fire was good. The first one is about why the fires burned so badly, the second about the recovery. Man can never replicate nature exactly. More importantly, most logging companies, that would do the "thinning" you seem to be supporting, have absolutely no desire to replicate nature. They're in the tree farming business. And of course you don't want to cut down the Sequoias and Redwoods. Nobody ever does, but we are. And of course you don't want clear cuts. Nobody does, except the logging companies. You wonder why the Sierras don't look like they did 40 years ago. LOGGING. The forest service is not your friend. Stop listening to them. I'm 47 and the main reason I care about this is because I grew up in those Sierra Nevada forests too.

http://www.artware.de/westernimprints/data/landscape/facts/firefacts.html

http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.URLRemapper/1994/oct17/dir/wr3.html