Greetings and salutations... While I was poking about on the Net earlier, I ran across this image from a NASA site:
As a woodworker, I have to cringe when I think about the many, many thousands of acres of tropical hardwoods that are destroyed like this every year. Part of the sadness of this is that it takes decades of growth to replace what is destroyed in a day or two of burning. It would seem to me that it would be a good thing to find a way to keep this tragedy from happening... With all the technology available today, it should not be that hard to get food and other basic needs to these folks, so that they can have a sustainable life based on wise harvesting of the wood from the forest. But hey...I also think that folks should at least make a SMALL effort to drive at the posted speed limits... Regards Dave Mundt