Bush gives 58 million acres of National Forests to industries

[Wildkat]

You can plant trees in the middle of roads? Wow.

Of course you can. You just have to call it, Sonny Bono Boulevard.

[Melf]

I think what's left of Teddy Roosevelt's corpse just exploded.

[Ryan]

George Washington is worse off, considering what this country has done.

[Dolemite]

Of course you can. You just have to call it, Sonny Bono Boulevard.

Shit. You cold, man.

[StriderKyo]

Says the man typing this on a desk made from wood or tree by-product

Laptop, actually. But keep trying, you'll get me next time.

[JefmcC]

Maybe we need all the wood for our steam powered eco-friendly cars that the US will develop to compete with Japanese hybrids?

[Joust Williams]

"Oh and because you're a big gay bible believer (which is totally LOL, how can you believe that bullshit?). "

I am? Hmm...I didn't know that. Oh wait--you're a frickin idiot.

"He's totally fucking right. There are seed pods which will only open after being heavily scorched in a forest fire, plants evolved this way because non-arson fires (ala one's caused by thunderstrikes) happen in a fairly regular frequency, and in the aftermath of a fire the higher canopies are thinned out leaving sunlight to reach the undergrowth. So a seed maximises its chances of germination by being released when it can use the ashes of its enemies as fertiliser and when its competition is toast."


What does any of that have to do with why we shouldn't thin out forests? So what if there are seed pods that might evolve in millions of years?

[ElCapichan]

What exactly is all that wood being used for anyway?

[Calliander]

You don't find that really annoying?

No, it keeps them warm.

[Thief Silver]

mining and other commercial uses by the Bush administration on Thursday.

Honestly I think that's the biggest problem. You can put trees back to the forest sure, but not if you're using them commercially.