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随着秋季雨季的来临,94年夏季横扫美国西部地区的大火已经渐渐熄灭.但是,正当大面积余火熄灭的时候,一场关于如何预防夏季发生更大面积火灾的新的争论却在激烈展开.在许多环境保护主义者主张以火攻火的同时,美国的林业部门正在努力推行一项大规模砍伐树木的措施,以降低林木密度和砍掉已经死亡的树木.持续一个世纪的积极的森林防火给美国留下一笔颇有讽刺意味的遗产:遍布美国西部地区的国家森林,到处都是密度过大的树木、病木和易发生火灾的枯树.林业部门说,解决问题的办法是从被火烧过的森林中挑出可使用的树木,以及通过选择性砍伐,防止未烧过的林区起火,小心翼翼地控制火势来解决.世界野生生物基金会的多米尼克·德拉萨认为:“灾难性的砍伐并不是防止毁灭性火灾的有效措施.”这场关于美国西部地区森林未来的争论已经从美国西部各州首府转到首都华盛顿.美国林业当局正在制订一项解决西部森林问题的新
As the autumn rainy season approached, the fires that swept the western United States in the summer of 94 have gradually extinguished, but a new debate about how to prevent a larger area fire in the summer is on the verge of a massive fire extinction While many conservationists are claiming to be on fire, the U.S. forest sector is working hard to introduce a massive cut of trees to reduce tree density and cut dead trees, and a forest that has lasted for more than a century Fireproofing leaves an ironic legacy to the United States: the national forests throughout the western United States are full of over-density trees, diseased wood and fire-prone dead trees, and the forestry department says the solution is Picked out usable trees from the fire-burned forests and carefully controlled the fire by selective deforestation to prevent burning in unburned forest areas, said Dominique de Lhasa of the World Wildlife Fund: Catastrophic logging is not an effective measure to prevent a devastating fire. "The controversy over the future of the forests in the western United States has spread from the western United States State capitals go to Washington, DC The U.S. forest administration is working on a new solution to the problem of forests in the west