By Milan Lombardo and Sofia Lussiez<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the next few months, the U.S. Forest Service is planning to cut nearly half the trees in our
107,000-acre watershed. The Santa Fe Mountains Landscape Resiliency Project consists of a mass
cutting of 50,566 acres comprising our watershed.
The Forest Service believes this is necessary to prevent possible \u201cfuture disturbances including
wildfire, climate change, and insect outbreaks.\u201d This proposal is based on their approach of
preventing such \u201cwhat if\u201d scenarios \u2014 especially forest fire.
But here is the problem: This approach would make almost all future scenarios more dire. This
project arises from the Forest Service\u2019s outdated belief that \u201cthe forest is simply a source of fuel.\u201d By
attempting to prevent the possible \u201cwhat if\u201d scenarios, the Forest Service is actually increasing the
susceptibility of the environment to the very problems they are seeking to preven<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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