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Message: [QUOTE="bsmith, post: 377946, member: 23934"] From my forestry classes, I think a Pine forest is the first stage of a forest. It is natural once the pines have been there for awhile to have the firs move in and eventually take over, part of a cycle that last tens of thousands of years. the end result is and Old growth forest. The timber industry does not want to see too many thousand year old trees any more, to tough to manage for the short term. As for the fire, It is a natural cleaning process, the reason the fires get so bad is we try and control them before anything burns, thus once a fire does get out of control their is to much fuel, and stopping it is almost impossible. Certain species like the lodgePole pine require fire in order to open up the Pine cone in order to release the seeds. But I'm sure the timber industry, the greenies, and the government are much smarter then Mother nature :think: Please correct my if I'm wrong, college was a few years back :eek: [/QUOTE]