BWCA Fire

[LundBOY]

Doing a project on the semi-new fire risks in the BWCA and doing a survey on what they should do about the fires

Burning smaller fires would prevent one large and dangerous fire

How much would you burn?

Debris will be swept down the lakes making them not so crystal clear?

Do we leave it as the main purpose just let it burn and let nature take its course?

Do we let the politics take care of it even though many don't even know what its like up there and the majesty and solitude?

Red,white and jack pines may burn and replced by "exotic" ashe and birch? What are your thoughts? Thanks and pleasse reply with your thoughts?

[MarbleEye's]

First id like to say that I dont support a prescibed burn on the boundry waters, but only to control the safty of a naturaly occouring one. I would hope government would only step in if a naturaly occouring one got out of hand, but otherwise leave the unconqured land of the BWCA away from politicians.

If it came down to being no choice but a burn I would sugest burning the areas with the greatest ammount of damage, and fire risk. If the native plants didn't come back to plant them. You have to realize that pines are only the mature forest, other plants survive as the forest matures.

Debris will always go somewhere and the ammount of nitrates and phosphates being the key. If large ammount of nutrients were swept into lakes it could damage them immensly with algee blooms and then low oxygen beause of decomposing plant materieal. The problem is that little or nothing can be done about this, so we would have to sit back and see what would happen.

MarbleEye's