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Sierra Club Forests Report 2001: Forest Fires - Beyond the Heat and Hype A Sierra Club Report "[Fire] is not a good thing or a bad thing. It's part of the system. It's just like sunshine and rain." -- Jim Brenner, Fire Management Administrator for the Florida Department of Agriculture. Logging interests and pro-business federal agencies claim that we need to destroy our wild forests to help prevent dangerous forest fires. In fact, the reverse is true: logging has been shown to multiply the risk of catastrophic forest fires. That's because timber companies cut down the largest trees, which are the most resistant to fire, leaving behind flammable smaller trees and piles of debris. As this report shows, we need to protect, not log, our national forests - now more than ever. Download the Full Report (1.3-mb Acrobat file) A Home Fire-Safety Checklist For a print copy of the report, contact forest-protection@sierraclub.org Up to Top HOME | Email Signup | About Us | Contact Us | Terms of Use | © 2008 Sierra Club