Hang on there guys. I'm getting credit for ideas and thoughts that never came off my keyboard. If someone wants to do the search and find where I advocate complete preservation, I'd appreciate that effort. If that's indeed what I wrote, I must have been incoherent. That's not reasonable. Either is border to border logging.
With all of this chatter about forest crops has anyone thought about all of the other parts of the "field"? What about the microbial relationships that don't exist in corn fields or pine plantations. Remember the old saying about how a squirrel used to run the tree tops from the Atlantic to the Mississippi? At one time that was possible, then there was time span where it wasn't possible. Now, the squirrel could run the tree tops but there might not be enough tree variteties to sustain the run. Monoculture in trees might not be the best answer either.
Down to Earth,
Please take this with a tongue in cheek
You wrote: A big reason for the fires here in CO this summer is...I'm sure that you remember how one of the big CO fires got started? By the USFS employee that didn't know about the fire ban. Also, one in AZ was set on purpose too. I wonder if these fires hadn't started that maybe there would be a lot more land unburned. At least this year.
You and I are probably the same distance from the ends of the preserve all/log all line and also the same distance apart from each other from the middle of that spectrum. That's balance!
Tom