Quoting Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com>:
It is now becoming clear that "preserving forests from fire" is worse than self-defeating, as well as entirely unnatural. Those of us who live in the West ....
Well, we're off on another controversial topic. Interestingly enough, today's mail brought in SIAM News for December, with a lead article, "The Power Grid as Complex System" which touches on the forest fire problem as another example of a certain kind of dynamical system. So I guess people are still interested in modelling these phenomona; who knows with what success? Some of the points raised in the article match Henry's comments. - hvm ------------------------------------------------- Obtén tu correo en www.correo.unam.mx UNAMonos Comunicándonos