thinning the forest in the North Cascades

[j_b]

an attempt at making the forest safe from devastating fire around Stehekin.

 

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134551304_stehekin09m.html

[Beck]

...a rather difficult issue, and one which has turned conventional environmental wisdom on its' head. Maybe its' really win/win for the enironment AND the timber industry, at least in the short (decades) term. I wonder who thinned the forests and "regulated" fire dangers before the loggers changed old growth to secondary forests in the last 100 years..."the wedges of development are being driven hard and none of the obstacles or defenses of nature can long withstand the onset of this immereasurable industry." John Muir, writing about the Northwest.

and,..."Fire, then, is the great governing agent in forest distribution..."