Yellowstone is burning once again. About 20 years ago the great park was in flames and was fought valiantly with over 9000 firefighters and at a cost of $120,000.00 which thankfully had no loss of life. Some years later the forest around where the fires had burned bloomed magnificently and we better understood the ecological benefits of forest fires. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_fires_of_1988
Now it's burning again and again thousands of firefighters and dollars are being sent to battle the blaze in an effort to save homes that are around the boundaries of the park itself. Yet should only those areas be fought and the rest burn?
Or should people just simply move and sell their land(s) to the park service and let nature do her thing.
It's almost like living near the Gulf Of Mexico and Floridian coast lines or along Oklahoma and Kansas, along the banks of the Mississippi River and anywhere near San Andreas Faultlines. You're going to live there then it seems logical to me to have to deal with whatever the areas provide, for better and especially for worse.
Fighting against nature IMO is just a futile act and a waste of resources.
Where human life is concerned there are no replacements but as far as property, they, eventually, can be replaced. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080728/ap_on_re_us/wildfires
Thoughts?
Now it's burning again and again thousands of firefighters and dollars are being sent to battle the blaze in an effort to save homes that are around the boundaries of the park itself. Yet should only those areas be fought and the rest burn?
Or should people just simply move and sell their land(s) to the park service and let nature do her thing.
It's almost like living near the Gulf Of Mexico and Floridian coast lines or along Oklahoma and Kansas, along the banks of the Mississippi River and anywhere near San Andreas Faultlines. You're going to live there then it seems logical to me to have to deal with whatever the areas provide, for better and especially for worse.
Fighting against nature IMO is just a futile act and a waste of resources.
Where human life is concerned there are no replacements but as far as property, they, eventually, can be replaced. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080728/ap_on_re_us/wildfires
Thoughts?