Forest Management

by Dave B , Alamogordo New Mexico, Saturday, June 09, 2012, 12:07 (4339 days ago) @ Rob Leahy

Here the "friends of the forest" would rather see the whole thing burn rather than allow sound management which would include logging and firewood cutting. They know the Forest Service will shut down indefinitely any areas that are burned. Biologists have told them with the water table what it is in the mountains, and the continued growth of Alamogordo and the Tularosa Basin sucking more and more water out of them, that we should have approx 100 trees per acre, not the 500+ we have in a lot of areas. A full grown Douglas Fir needs over 100 gallons/day to survive. Total crap is what we have here, the county has been trying to sue them to open up logging jobs, no luck so far.