"After they're on the ground they're limbed, which makes a big fuel pile that has to be dealt with at some expense."--HB

and the fuel piles can be dealt with as there are markets for the slash as well, it's called wood chips which can be used for a number of things from ethanol to wood boilers to mulch, but then again I've witnessed this happening and you are operating on what you remember.

you've got Clinton on the brain

neither one of you would ever dare say anything against the current mismanagement of the forests by the present managers because you fear a boogey man, since you are both liberals

"If the forest are going to gain ground they need some thinning, but the timber would have to be a gift and that would raise more problems and corruption."--HB

more boogey men

"there will always be forest fires, but eventually, with good management they will overcome the damage done in the decades prior to 1988."--HB

and when does the good management start HB, cuz it ain't happening now, Clinton's cronies populate the federal bureaucracy already and I got news for you if you think they support elk hunting, you're an idiot.