Northwest Forest Fires

[L. Wakefield]

  You don't have to stand on just one side. You can walk all around it and balance the action. See nature's criteria and respect them- but harvest before the timber is disease-ridden- and see the homeowner's desire for the soft and deep shade of the woods- give that shelter but also the beauty of lawn a little bit away- and the lawn can make a fair firebreak and access to defend the house- which can be made of wood- doing much to persuade the homeowner of the wisdom of harvesting.

  As the song ends up after going full circle- 'He's hiding from his wife, down at smoky's bar'-

  Welcome to earth, 3rd rock from the sun. .  lw

[CHARLIE]

I heard on the news this morning that some dude scientist took a plane and flew back and forth through the smoke of one of the forest fires taking air (smoke) samples. He found that forest fires let off large amounts of mercury into the air. A lot more than was originally thought. Who would have thought that some of the mercury in the streams, lakes and fish is coming from a natural occurance too.:-/

[Don P]

I was at the folks yesterday and caught the tail end so hopefully someone will correct this. There is a 4 hour special on CNN Labor Day I think 9 ET on forest fires.

[swampwhiteoak]

Just got back to the forum after fighting fires in Nevada and one in California.  Did a two week stint as part of an eastern module of crews.  Wish we had made it to Oregon or Washington, maybe next year.  Hoping my boss will let me go out to Montana but I ain't holding my breath.  Getting out west once a year is nice enough.  On the one hand, I hate to see timber burn, but on the other hand it sure is a good time to help put it out.

Will post pictures as soon as I can get some scanned, probably in a week or so.

[Bruce]

swampwhiteoak

Looking forward to viewing your pictures.  I'm thankful for your safe return.  I've been learning alot reading member post.

I hooked up with a corporation in Washgington (22,000sf facility) that has a patented pending process known as Enhanced Growth Technology, representing a revolutionary change in fermentation technology.  EGT will dramatically reduce or replace mechanical stirring and sparging and increase biomass yields as foaming is substantially reduced.  This technology can drastically reduce the cost of energy and also reduces labor requirements, while increasing product yields.

Since the platform technology has a broad base application, the future uses of this product are expected to include the pharmaceutical companies and for the manufacturers of homeopathic remedies, industrial enzymes, chemicals, citric acid, and biopesticides which are an alternative for chemical pesticides.

The process will drive down the variable costs of ethanol production per unit volume and increase the return on investment for plant operation.

MycoFerm's novel and proprietary technology under development will revolutionize the animal waste industry. When compared to known bacterial techniques for remediation, animal wastes fungi are known to be able to perform the same function within five to six weeks as compared to bacterial treatments taking up to 2 years.

Since we cant' do anything about forest fires in the northwest, I've decided to contribute my efforts in new technologies.