This is not an endorsement of any type but listening to an interview today with the Republican Candidate for the Commissioner Of Public Lands, Sue Kuehl Pederson, she brought up an interesting comment on modern forestry practices that made sense. Her comment was that modern forestry practices have left us with forests that are too densely populated with trees, more than twice the traditional carrying capacity of the native forests. Not only does this provide extra fuel for devastating fires but it also has another non-intended side effect that causes issues we don't think about.

That issue is when you have that many trees they will use twice the ground water the forest traditionally used. The news today is fires everywhere up and down the coast (using the the same practices). Our late summers are becoming more like Smoketembers.

I'm no scientist but it's not a far reach to make some sort of correlation that these very forestry practices are using so much ground water that it has serious effects on our river flows, fish survival and even raising our summer temperatures just compounding the problem. Your thoughts.