[jaguar]

There is a growing school of thought at least in Australia (lets face it, they get a lot of big fires) that *any* forest management is stupid. Before we came along forests somehow managed to manage themselves and do a pretty good job of it, some things we do, like not having regular fires only creates problems and 'clearing' has been shown to utterly fuck the forest ecosystem by removing the habitat of hundreds of species.

In australia regular fires are *needed* for germination of some plants for crying out loud and the reason the really destructive fires, crown fires start is because there isn't enough regular smaller firest coming though cleaning things up a bit, these forests have been around longer than us, hundreds of species have developed to live in an ecosystem in which fire is an essential part, in short, leave the fucking forests alone.