The Frontier Sixshooter Community Message Board - Forest Management

Forest Management (reply)

Dave B — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:07:06 +0000

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.

We have already had 4 what used to be called major fires (reply)

Rob Leahy — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 14:27:45 +0000

this spring, sure would be nice if we actually managed the forests again!

Fire on the mountain (reply)

Dave B — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 06:55:53 +0000

Sunset shot.

Fire on the mountain

Dave B — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 06:53:43 +0000

Well boys, unfortunately, fire has come to ravage the forests of South Eastern New Mexico, I was hoping we could make it to the monsoons without burning, but this is what almost no snow and only about 4 days with any real rainfall since December.

That is prime elk country burning right there.