Blazes may prove a good thing.Idaho's summer wildfires may prove to have been a good thing in the long run. Forest managers in Idaho told the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. the fires followed historic patterns that will aid forest ecology Forest ecology is the scientific study of patterns and processes in forests. The management of forests is known as forestry. Forest Ecosystem Scope of Forest Ecology that's been destabilized after more than a century of fire suppression. "There is a willingness in today's environment to basically back off, let the fire increase in size if there isn't a firefighter safety issue," David Olson, Boise National Forest The Boise National Forest is a US national forest located north and east of the city of Boise, Idaho. It is about 2,612,000 acres (10,570 km²) in size, ranging in elevation from 2,600 to 9,800 feet (800 to 3000 m). spokesman, told The Idaho Statesman The Idaho Statesman is a U.S. daily newspaper serving the Boise, Idaho metropolitan area. The paper has a circulation of 65,000 daily, 87,640 Sunday, and employs about 450 people. It is owned by The McClatchy Company. . The fires burned more than 800,000 acres in the state but destroyed only a few homes. Since the fires burned at different temperatures, the forest remnants they left vary in age, from old growth to young trees. The resulting variety of trees will help protect the forest from disease and insects, said Kathleen Gaier-Hayes, a fire ecologist. John McCarthy (person, artificial intelligence) John McCarthy - A pioneer of artificial intelligence (he coined ther term). He invented Lisp at MIT in the late 1950s and later worked at SAIL. ftp://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc. E-mail: <jmc@cs.stanford.edu>. , a spokesman for The Wilderness Society, called the policy "positive and really what you'd hope to see" for the forest. |
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