tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37761425.post3281697567984241267..comments2024-02-27T16:36:03.900-08:00Comments on BIOstock Blog: Thinning trees to save ecologyC. Scott Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04752517798894140353noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37761425.post-69411675639471933972007-08-22T15:25:00.000-07:002007-08-22T15:25:00.000-07:00I see three options: 1) do nothing to stem the den...I see three options: 1) do nothing to stem the density of growth of our forests and witness horrific fires and bug infestations or 2) persist in fighting forest fires in overgrown wilderness areas which only make the future worse for mega-fires or 3) engage in restorative forestry to mechanically thin forests as described by Dr. Thomas M. Bonnicksen in his excellent "Protecting Communities and C. Scott Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04752517798894140353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37761425.post-60956373802717333822007-08-22T10:55:00.000-07:002007-08-22T10:55:00.000-07:00Just returned from a fishing trip in the White Riv...Just returned from a fishing trip in the White River National Forest area. Driving down to Yampa and on to Winter Park was a shocking experience. Perhaps action is being taken but none was seen. Aerial sprays against the beetle? If not acceptable, then why not enlist thousands of unemployed to cut the trees and have them used for pulp or ethanol or ? Why no Federal assistance to this destruction?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com