Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Melvin on May 26, 2012, 11:44:08 AM
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We've got a bad one burning up by us. Fortunately it's pretty far away and going in the other direction. How's the rest of the community fairing this year?
http://www.uppermichiganssource.com/news/story.aspx?id=758657#.T8EHooFsWqU
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From Cali, only things we ever worry about is Quakes and fire, lol. Nothing so far as I know of
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I used to sit on the Board of Great Lakes Four Wheel Drive Association. The DNR is horrible in maintaining fire roads and years of neglect have come around to bite them in the arse. A few years back there was a bad one in the UP and the DNR played second fiddle to a GLFWDA member who had more accurate maps from the 50's. I doubt they woke up after that one. My hats off to the firefighters though.
The DNR is absolutely useless in the State of Michigan.
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Perhaps the line of rain showers currently making their way through the area will help the firefighters get some control of the situation. I certainly hope so.
As for the DNR...their main focus these days seems to be how to "manage" the State's forrests as a cash-cow to bail out the financial drain of the poorly run Blue counties of SE Michigan.
A ride through any State forrest today reveals the full extent of the clear-cutting campaign underway...
While they used to leave a narrow strip of un-cut forrest along the roads to hide or disguise the extent of the cutting from the flatlanders and fudgies heading north to their summer cottages, nowadays all they leave standing is a small handfull of immature and/or commercially worthless tree species...1-5 trees per acre is not my idea of a forrest.
They don't even leave the slash behind anymore. It all gets chipped and hauled away. There is virtually nothing left behind to give cover to the game animals, or to provide nutrients to the poor thin sandy soils.
Michigan's forrests today are starting to resemble what we had when the Lumber-Barons finished with them and moved further west a hundred years ago...stumps and naked blow-sand.
Shameful...
CptA
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Perhaps the line of rain showers currently making their way through the area will help the firefighters get some control of the situation. I certainly hope so.
As for the DNR...their main focus these days seems to be how to "manage" the State's forrests as a cash-cow to bail out the financial drain of the poorly run Blue counties of SE Michigan.
A ride through any State forrest today reveals the full extent of the clear-cutting campaign underway...
While they used to leave a narrow strip of un-cut forrest along the roads to hide or disguise the extent of the cutting from the flatlanders and fudgies heading north to their summer cottages, nowadays all they leave standing is a small handfull of immature and/or commercially worthless tree species...1-5 trees per acre is not my idea of a forrest.
They don't even leave the slash behind anymore. It all gets chipped and hauled away. There is virtually nothing left behind to give cover to the game animals, or to provide nutrients to the poor thin sandy soils.
Michigan's forrests today are starting to resemble what we had when the Lumber-Barons finished with them and moved further west a hundred years ago...stumps and naked blow-sand.
Shameful...
CptA
Amen brother. My in-laws have 80 acres in Evart/Hersey near 10. You only need to go to 7 Mile Rd and 135th to the "Trailhead". It sickens a person to see what lumber companies can get away with.
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Nothing yet in northern CA, but we had a very dry winter here so there's the definite possibility that it could be a bad year.