here HB, here's your "conservative" argument written out for you by a bunch of granola munchers

http://www.sierraclub.org/forests/fires/healthyforests_initiative.asp

and I'm the liberal for calling for logging to thin the forests that now have six to ten times more trees per acre than they did historically, which decreases the amount of moisture content over the area, because there is that much more biomass in need of moisture to survive, which leads to moisture levels in thousand hours fuels at two and three percent.