Mr. Paulson,
But I'm suggesting that slash burning is creating a less varied
environment that any fires caused by nature or the native people. It is
practically a sterile environment suitable for mono-culture mostly and
little else.

Bruce Harrison
McMinnville, Oregon


On Fri, 19 Jan 1996 10:46:09 -0800, Dennis Paulson wrote:
>I'm not in any way endorsing clear-cutting or slash burning, but there's
>no question that they (or the natural burning that preceded them)
>maintained a mosaic of environments that has actually become less varied
>in recent years.