First, I must state that I believe in the responsible management of our limited and even unlimited resources. I believe that was a responsibility given to us by God.

This page is in response to the perpetual scare tactics being used by conservation groups, individuals, and organizations such as National Geographic magazine. It is meant to get you to think about what is being said in relation to what is really happening.

As a 54 year old biologist, I have heard these scare tactics being told for decades and the worst culprits tend to be college professors who don't even have a degree in science. For well over a decade now, I have been hearing and reading how we have depleted 80% to over 90% of any number of natural resources. The scare message is that, if we don't start conserving NOW we will soon lose that resource and everyone will die.

According to my calculations based on the information provided by these scare tactics, many of our resources have already disappeared and we are all now dead. It seems that most of you have not yet figured out that you are dead so I am hear to tell you that you are dead. Well, according to the predictions of these scare mangers.

Yes, I believe that there are certain resources which are becoming limited in supply and under increasing demand but, for most of the resources, it really isn't as severe as we are being told and it should be obvious to those who just question what we are being told. You need to learn to use a little common sense in listening to this crap.

Years ago, they were telling us that almost all of the world's forests had been depleted and that the forests in the US were depleted to the extent that they were on the verge of becoming extinct, at which time, our lives would come to a crashing end. Over the last few years, we have been having an epidemic of forest fires in the Western US, you know, in those extinct forests we don't have any more. Research into the cause of these increasingly bad forest fires has revealed some very interesting information.

What we have found is that (1) we now have more land covered by forests than the US did over 100 years ago and (2) our forests have become so over grown that they are drying out and becoming more susceptible to forest fires. The main reasons for the increased susceptibility for fire among our forests is caused by two basic factors.

First, you have to think of trees as these huge water pumps that very effectively draw water from out of the ground with their roots, pump the water up to their branches through their trunks, and breath that water out into the air through their leaves where the water is quickly blown away by the wind. Some of it will fall back as rain but not all of it.

It should only be common sense that the more trees you have within any area, the more water the trees will pump into the air within the same period of time. It turns out that our forests have become so over grown because of the zero logging policy of the conservation groups that the trees are draining the water from forests so fast that the water tables are falling and entire rivers and streams are disappearing. This is causing the extinction of entire riparian areas (ecosystems along bodies of water including all fish) to the extent that even large rivers the size of the Rio Grande River in New Mexico, which is one of the largest rivers in the US, are on the verge of becoming extinct.

For example, the Rio Ruidoso used to travel about 90 miles from its source to feed into the Pecos River year round. As of about four years ago, it had dried up to where it goes completely underground about 50 miles from the Pecos River killing off over 50 miles of riparian area that may never recover completely even if the river does return to its previous flow. It has been shown that the primary extinction of this river is being caused by the extreme over growth of the Lincoln National Forest.

As these forests dry up, the grasses, bushes, and trees become more dry. This makes them more susceptible to fire, causes them to burn hotter, and causes them to burn faster.

Second, we are finding that, when trees can't get enough water, their defenses against insects and diseases decrease. This permits infestations which kill off large areas of trees turning them into dry kindling. For example, the current drought in the western forests of the US is causing the pine trees to lose their normal defense against the bark beetle. This is permitting the bark beetle to invade these trees, increase their populations, and spread through the forests killing off large areas of forests.

Watch the pictures of the planes dropping slurry on the forest fires. You will see increasing numbers of pine trees whose leaves have turned gray, brown, rust, and orange colored even in the spring and summer. These are the trees which have been or are being killed off by the bark beetles and other pests because the trees don't have enough water to keep their defenses strong enough to resist the pests. These trees are extremely flammable and burn very quickly and hot.

In other words, the conservation groups, themselves, with their zero logging policies, are the primary cause of the current forest fires. The conservation groups are refusing to relent on their zero logging because they believe admitting they were wrong about zero logging will decrease their credibility. Their response to the forests being over grown is that fire is the way the forests used to naturally maintain a healthy forest density.

What they are not telling you is that the current fires are not the types of fires which used to maintain the health of our forests. Hundreds of years ago, the fires that swept through our forest were mostly grass fires because the tree density was only about 20% of their current density. The fires almost always stayed on the ground where they only destroyed the grass, bushes, and smaller trees not permitting the smaller trees to grow up and fill our forests.

These grass fires were not anywhere nearly as hot as the fires you currently see in our forests where the largest trees are burning and the fires crown or burn in the tops of the trees. These ground fires only destroyed existing grasses, bushes, and trees but did not destroy seeds in the soil, roots, and the animals living under ground. The forests would recover within weeks with new grass and bushes.

Today's crowning fires are so hot they will actually melt the soil in spots turn it to plasma or molten lava. I have known several fire fighters who have accidently stepped into cooling pools of plasma following a forest fire and been seriously burned. This much more extreme heat kills everything in the fire and underground including roots, seeds, and animals. They also destroy the soil where the fire gets hot enough to turn it into plasma. If you don't think so, visit any relatively resent lava bed and see what grows in it. The answer will be nothing.

A forest which has been through a crowning fire can take up to 30 years or more to recover from the fire to a point of being healthy. You don't want the fires we are having today. They are very unhealthy for the forests and will kill them off.

Basically, the scare tactics being used by conservationists and the strategies built around the scare tactics are quickly killing our forests off. Our forests are now in a greater danger of extinction because of our conservationists zero logging policies than at any time in the history of the US. If I were a home owner who had just lost a home to one of these forest fires, I would hold the people responsible for these lies and propaganda responsible for their actions by suing them for the damages to my property and the hardships endured because of their lies. They are liable and should pay for the damages they are causing. And I wouldn't just go after the organizations responsible for spreading these lies but I would pearce the corporate vail and go after the individuals. They took my house from me with their lies so I would take their homes from them with the truth.

Another thing they were telling us years ago about trees is that our forests were so decimated that we were on the verge of running out of lumber to build our homes. It should only be common sense that the lumber market would reflect this shortage of lumber years later but the market is not confirming what we were told.

If their information was true, we should see severe shortages of lumber, especially for the more endangered species, and prices should be so high that only the most wealthy people could afford to build even a dining set much less a house. But we see that most of the woods that were considered most endangered by the conservationists are still plentiful and the prices are surprisingly cheap showing there is still an abundance of those woods.

Redwood and mahogany were two woods we were being told were on the verge of extinction. Yet, both woods are still very plentiful and the prices are still very reasonable. As a matter of fact, mahogany is still the most plentiful and cheapest hard wood on the market. This is in spite of the fact that the economies of third world countries have been growing increasing the demand for all resources. With the rapid growth of the third would economies increasing the demand for our resources, the resources should have been depleted even sooner than the scare mangers predicted.

What the conservationists don't want you to know is that there have been established huge commercial farms producing very large quantities of specialized woods. They have found that by growing trees on farms, they can control the quantity, quality, and rate of growth much better and prevent fires which would normally destroy the forests and woods. With less vegetation competing for the water and soil nutrients, the trees will grow much larger and much faster than in the wild. By pruning the trees and controlling the feeding and watering, they can control the quality of the wood resulting in less waste at the lumber mills. By controlling the design of these tree farms, they can make it faster, easier, and less expensive to extract the trees and transport them to the lumber mills.

There is actually a tree farm in one of the Baltic countries which grows a special fir to build the best bicycle racing tracks out of wood. They don't have to hunt through the forests for a specific tree and harvest it from among many other types of trees. They simply move in and clear cut a few acres and then replant those acres with small trees that were started in greenhouses. In the farm environment, those trees will grow back up to harvesting size within relatively few years and the trees that were harvested will be a better quality fir.

Then there is the recent scare story in the National Geographic about 90% of the edible see life in our oceans being depleted in just the last 50 years. Again, we have to turn to the market to see if what we are being told is true. Scare economics