[GBlist] burning wood and cleaning the forest

[Sacie H Lambertson <dlambert@grasshoppernet.com>]

As I recall, European forests are picked totally clean.  Little chance
therefore for anything to decay to enrich the soil.  I've never seen an
American timber/woods/forest left this way and out here in Kansas, I
believe I am correct in saying there are now many more trees now than there
were before white man settled this land, when fires cleared the prairies on
a regular basis.  Personally I wouldn't take down dead trees in which bird
holes are clearly present and no one would gather for firewood the wood
debris that is already rotting on the ground so I suspect that the majority
of our trees are safe.  I do not speak to the plantations which ARE pretty
dead places.   Sacie Lambertson

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