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rearfang
at Mon May 3 15:29:22 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rearfang ]
Easy there Rodney....Over-react much???
I figured that you might be heading in that direction and I wanted to be sure because it didn't make sense to the arguement.
I have always argued that the miles of "healthy forest" was what mattered. The only time I have reffered to the density of trees per acre was when you brought up the Bird issue and I commented on the local effects of dense forest. I clearly stated that I could not comment on California which I don't know much about(California that is)and I said so...Note that.
But it makes my point as when you refer to an unhealthy overgrowth...who's responsible? So if this tree over population is causing as you say a large part of the problem...then guess who is guilty?
Not Nature...for her cycles would have kept tree density lower to a healthy cycle...and that is what ecologists are complaining about. The severe reduction of healthy forests.
I'm a little irritated as I remember you lecturing me about Florida ecology a while back...something you are not familiar with, where I have nearly 50 years experience living here with them. (remember the posts about that study that Bush (Gov) signed on?). You were (and probably are still) convinced that you were right on that issue.
I (at least) readily admit when I don't know something.
Anyhow...
As I tried to point out. The difference means a lot when you compare tree over density vs miles of healthy forested land.
That is why I say again...statistics are just numbers. They can be bent to mean anything the person want's to justify. Hey there might be more trees (though I deeply doubt that to be the case even if you are jamming them together). But the resulting produce from those clustered trees is not the same as from a healthy forest.
So saying there is no problem from (for example) depletion of forests) because statistically there are more trees is just plain dumb. Quality vs quantity.....
It takes more than just cold numbers to properly interpret what is going on. It takes a knowledge of how the whole picture fits together to understand what it means.
You seem too wrapped up in disecting apples and oranges...and making too much of the difference.....Try looking out someone else's window instead of being so convinced that only your glass is clear...
Obbsessive.
Define that......
Frank
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"The luxury of not getting involved departed with the last lifeboat Skipper..."
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RE: Do definitions really matter? They do to me! - rearfang, Mon May 3 15:29:22 2004