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America has a varied climate from hot and arid in the southwest sector to wet
and rainy up the northern California coast through Oregon and Washington.
Crossing east the Coast mountains and then the Cascades get most of the moisture
and between the Cascades and the Rocky Mountains it is mostly high desert
country. The Rockies on the western flank of the continent are the highest
and longest mountain range. Some of the younger formations such as the
Cascades, Teton range, and the Sierra Nevada's are the most breath taking.
The eastern half of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Mexico, have dryer
climates and much is plains through the Mississippi Valley. Along the
eastern flank are the older, hardwood covered Appalachians. The U.S. was
once covered with native Indians and the plains with bison. Current
population and industry is concentrated in the northeast section on the
continent. Canada has most of the natural forest left on the
continent. Population in Canada is concentrated along the border of the
United States. Mexico is the world's largest Spanish-speaking country.
Central America and the Caribbean have nearly 30 countries and
islands.
Environment - The North American continent is rich in minerals and oil, much of which
has been capped for future production. It was once rich in timber
resources but has been razed by large timber companies. They masquerade
under a cover of money, with special interest politicians, and talk about their
re-forestation projects! The fact is, the original large trees that
covered the natural forests are gone! The once large tree forests, that
were impervious to ground fires, that cleared the fuels from the forest floors,
on natural burns, prevented runaway fires. This is part of the reason that
prescribed burns no longer work, the smaller trees have their first needle limbs
within reach of most ground fires. Please understand that I am in favor of
prescribed burns done wisely! It is an important part of the natural
forest evolution, without it you get a forest thick in fuels, much like the
situation a few years ago at Yellowstone! Wildfires under the wrong
conditions must be controlled and that includes smart prescribed
burns! The natural forest trees have been
replaced with trees 1/10th the size and then harvested with clear cutting, that
destroys the natural habitat and washes the hill sides into the rivers, where it
does further damage to the fish habitat! Meanwhile, the lack of larger
trees and increased cost of production killed most wood products companies and
these large companies are now exporting our remaining natural resource of
smaller logs, on barges, to places like Malaysia and Japan where they will
manufacture the wood products and sell them back to us at a profit. I
won't mention the name of these companies but they are warehouser's of destruction!
We had better wake up and cap the forest resources of this country and find
people for forest management that understand the right time of year and types of
forest to prescribe burns that remove ground fuels from the forest
floors.
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