now let's think about fire control. as industry has sold land it has also disposed of, or significantly scaled back on the fire

fighting assistance that it has provided to state fire control organizations. when the largest timberland owner in the u.s. sold

its lands to timos and ngos, the seller no longer needed fire control equipment and its pretty safe to say that the new owners

had little interest in maintaining fire control personnel or equipment (somebody tell me if i'm wrong!). now, what about our faith

in capitalism and the thought that capital will flow to meet this need. perhaps the faith is misplaced here and these new

buyers (timos, timberland boots ngos, tree farmers, homeowners, hunters. etc) need to step up to the plate and provide very strong support for

funding of state forest fire control organizations. that means through both lobbying and increased taxes on forestland timberland waterproof boots focused

100% on improved fire control. this will not happen until after a major calamity. in the meantime, state fire control budgets will

shrink (in real dollars) as government finds "better" places to allocate its expenditures.

so..., what's the net change in productivity as a result of all these changes? my guess, and that is all that it is, is that

productivity goes down mainly timberland boots as the result of a decline in productive acreage. that's bad timberland boots . or is it. pulpwood demand has

dropped significantly in the u.s. so maybe the productivity decline will be a good thing. or maybe we will come to understand

that people would rather eat than have gasoline made from corn ethanol. or see timberland and wildlife habitat cleared for

corn fields. perhaps soon a president will wake up to timberland boots sale the fact that he/she has a nation with forests capable of providing

ethanol (and other forms of fuel) timberland boots and a very capable research team already in place that is capable of making it happen. then

forest productivity will once again be a major issue and timberland investors will be smiling. and capital will flow to forest

research! and to silvicultural expenditures! and to fire control! but that's a thought for another day.