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["Mapstone" <mapstone@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Over two years ago Congress mandated and
funded pre-suppression (prescribed fire and
thinning), urban interface, homeowner
education, etc. to reduce fuels and wildland
fires.  These national fire programs are
ongoing and effective.
The Healthy Forests Initiative is a return to
logging. Timber companies do not 'thin' the
forest.  There is no market for small
diameter trees.
Allan (What's an ecosystem?) Fitzsimmons was
named to oversee wildfire prevention.  The
following article is from the Seattle Times:

http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi
-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=interi
or31&date=20020831
K.T. Mapstone
Saltillo, MS

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