Full Version: Rainforests...our world dissapearing
From: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#18]
17 Oct 2006
To: basehorawards [#15] 17 Oct 2006
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........arrogance cost humanity so much.
James,
What I find even more sad is that that same arrogance continues to cost us today. We ( humans ) are NOT owners of this planet, we are caretakers and not very good ones at that. :-(
From: basehorawards [#19]
17 Oct 2006
To: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#18] 17 Oct 2006
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What I find even more sad is that that same arrogance continues to cost us today. We ( humans ) are NOT owners of this planet, we are caretakers and not very good ones at that.
So true. A lot of the huge raging forest fires we have had over the past 20 or so years have been because of our "management" style of putting out every fire as soon as possible. An earlier post mentioned low burning fires clearing the underbrush and helping the conifer seeds to open. When we don't let the little fires clear out the "slash" then we end up with clogged tangled messes that turn into infernos that kill all the trees instead of just scorching the bark. We hiked in Yellowstone a few years back in areas that had burned. It was very sad and yet very comforting to see nature recovering from our "management."
Interestingly enough in that book "1691" (the year before Columbus discovered north america) they mention the journals of early european explores describing the skies as being full of smoke and that it seemed that the Indians were always burning the forest or the grassland. One account told of an Englishman being able to ride his horse at full gallop through the forests of New England. The indians burnt the underbrush if nature did not do it for them. Easier to hunt if there are fewer places for the animals to hide. It was only after most of the indians died or were relocated that the forests became as thick as they are today. the ones they like to call "old growth" and "pristine" are only like that because the caretakers got run off and killed.
From: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#20]
17 Oct 2006
To: basehorawards [#19] 17 Oct 2006
James,
I wonder what the forests did BEFORE people were here?
From: basehorawards [#21]
17 Oct 2006
To: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#20] 17 Oct 2006
From: UncleSteve [#22]
18 Oct 2006
To: basehorawards [#19] 19 Oct 2006
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enough in that book "1691" (the year before Columbus discovered north america)
Just because!!!!!! How does that relate to the news in "1492" ???? (devil)
From: basehorawards [#23]
19 Oct 2006
To: UncleSteve [#22] 19 Oct 2006
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