R. Keith Clontz
Linville Gorge Wilderness 4,500,000,000 years in the making
The US Forest Service is planning to burn 16,586 acres of the Linville Gorge (a government legislated designated wilderness), in what they are calling prescribed, controlled burns.
Do not be fooled by the USFS, The Nature Conservancy or WildSouth. Any fire, prescribed or not, in Linville Gorge will destroy the wild and natural ecological environment that the 1964 Wilderness Act sought to protect. Setting fires to this wild and natural environment, that was here long before mankind, is not good forest management for Linville Gorge. In the recent past, several accidental fires in Linville Gorge have created such devastation to the fragile environment that it will take centuries to recover, that is, if it doesn't suffer even further damage.
Where are the trees in this image, photographed on Short Off Mountain? There was a wildfire here nearly 7 years ago in the year 2007.
There are more learned men than I who have posted to publications on the internet describing why the prescribed burns in Linville Gorge are a very bad idea. Look them up and read what they have to say.
Type in your browser something like: "USFS prescribed burns linville gorge".
Visit the Save Linville Gorge Wilderness website.
Contact the United States Forest Service, our President,
our governor, our senators and others who are in a position
to stop the destruction of the Linville Gorge, one of North
Carolinas great natural treasures.
Linville Gorge Wilderness 4,500,000,000 years in the making
The US Forest Service is planning to burn 16,586 acres of the Linville Gorge (a government legislated designated wilderness), in what they are calling prescribed, controlled burns.
Do not be fooled by the USFS, The Nature Conservancy or WildSouth. Any fire, prescribed or not, in Linville Gorge will destroy the wild and natural ecological environment that the 1964 Wilderness Act sought to protect. Setting fires to this wild and natural environment, that was here long before mankind, is not good forest management for Linville Gorge. In the recent past, several accidental fires in Linville Gorge have created such devastation to the fragile environment that it will take centuries to recover, that is, if it doesn't suffer even further damage.
Where are the trees in this image, photographed on Short Off Mountain? There was a wildfire here nearly 7 years ago in the year 2007.
There are more learned men than I who have posted to publications on the internet describing why the prescribed burns in Linville Gorge are a very bad idea. Look them up and read what they have to say.
Type in your browser something like: "USFS prescribed burns linville gorge".
Visit the Save Linville Gorge Wilderness website.
Contact the United States Forest Service, our President,
our governor, our senators and others who are in a position
to stop the destruction of the Linville Gorge, one of North
Carolinas great natural treasures.