re: Collaboration to save the West's forests

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Your country boy must not live out west. Clear cutting solves the fire issue for a long time. Out west grass fires are not nearly the concern as forest fires. When you see a 80 foot tall lodge pole pine explode (not burn - freaking explode) you will understand. After clear cutting there would need to be weed management practices, but that process in a limited fashion is great for forests and wildlife.

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In your opinion, MI, do thos 80's "explode" because their dense proximity allows off the chart combustion in a 70mph wind? Could they be thinned, and the understory controlled-burned in proper times, so that big trees could be allowed with minimal risks? I love big trees; have hugged a bunch. I don't care if they can't love me back. Hell, Jesus didn't care that those who nailed him up, didn't love him back.

I just know there is common sense middle ground to manage those wildfires. Extremes - in any case other than 'extreme' Truth - have to come together. It's not an asteroid or super-volcano.