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HeyBub

wrote:
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:08:05 -0000, (Chris
Lewis) wrote:

Because fire isn't very safe in built-up areas. It has a tendancy
to do things you don't want it to. Controlled burns sometimes
get out of hand.

If it is that "built up" you should be able to control the fuel load
on the ground.

Tree-huggers won't let you. The forest service cannot, in the main, clear
the forest floor. So doing might disturb the habitat of the Three-toed
Salamander which is SO endangered no one's ever seen the critter.