Sorry but I lost my cookie and I'm too lazy to get it back right now.

I am with the Prez. on this one. I have been fighting fires all summer. I have been confronted by so called environmentalists who have cursed me for trying to save homes. Some of them want to save every tree! If we would do a better job of logging and thinning (ie get the forests to look more like old growth/ low desity fire loads) we could save more land, more money and have fires that would do the job God inteded them to without all the large scale damage.

I love trees, my livelyhood as a luthier depends on sustainable harvesting and continued growth. BUT, we need to log better, clear the forest floors and allow the fires to do the job they were inteded to do by nature.

Just my opinion though.

Butch