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[DesertDrifter]

nope,,, just fewer trees per acre so that there are sufficient resources to support them, and a slight shift in species... the more moisture-needy species may have to move up 500 feet or so in elevation, which is equivalent to a few degrees of latitude farther north.

saving most habitats in a forest environment is NOT futile in the face of climate turbulence. Preventing widespread stand-replacement events is not only feasible, but using prescribed fire is way more economical than putting out intense fire. Wildfire suppression costs about $2500 per acre on the average, but treating the fuels before a fire event is about $250 per acre, often much less if underburning is done on a large scale. I suspect that the Waldo Canyon fire will cost an astronomical amount, but i haven't seen the data yet.

[sideeki]

Oops-Smokejumpers Find Pot Garden While Fighting Oregon Fire
05/09/13 07:19 PM ET EDT AP


MEDFORD, Ore. -- A team of smokejumpers parachuting into a fire in the mountains of Southern Oregon landed in an illegal marijuana garden being prepared for growing season.

The six smokejumpers from a base in Redmond found the site Monday evening, when there was a rash of lightning strikes.

Jackson County sheriff's spokeswoman Andrea Carlson says the smokejumpers notified authorities, who hiked into the remote site in the Rogue River-Siskiyou (SIS'-kee-yoo) National Forest. They seized two guns and more than 1,000 little pot plants.

Carlson says the site near the community of Applegate was being cultivated by growers for Mexican drug gangs, and it's been used before.

She says the smokejumpers saw some people but weren't sure whether they were pot growers, so no one was arrested.

The smokejumpers extinguished the fire after it burned less than an acre.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/10/smokejumpers-pot-garden_n_3251916.html?utm_hp_ref=crime&ir=Crime