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however, this is grabbed my attention (from yahoo news)

Study Lends Support to Opponents of Logging

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - New research indicates that forests don't need to be replanted after wildfires and that cutting the burned trees for timber increases the short-term danger of new fires.

The study of the aftermath of a massive fire in an Oregon national forest, to be published online Friday in Science Express and later in the journal Science, gives opponents of salvage logging new support. But it is not likely to resolve the continuing debate in Congress over what to do with the millions of acres of national forests that burn every year.
"These results surprised us," said Dan Donato, a graduate student in forest science at Oregon State University who was lead author of the study. "Even after a huge high-severity fire in a place that is really tough to grow trees we are finding abundant natural tree regeneration."
Based on test plots in areas that were logged and not logged, the study found abundant seedlings growing, even in areas severely burned, most of which were killed when dead trees were cut down and hauled out. It also found that cutting the dead trees left much more wood on the ground to fuel future fires, even after the logs were hauled away, than leaving the trees standing, unless crews burn the debris.
The Biscuit fire was the nation's biggest in 2002, when it burned 500,000 acres of the Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon. It became the focus of intense legal and political battles.
Environmental groups argued that the best course is to let burned forests regenerate on their own, producing diverse habitats more resistant to future fires. The Bush administration and timber industry counter that harvesting dead trees provides valuable timber and pays for modern reforestation techniques that produce a new forest decades faster than nature.
Jerry Franklin, professor of forestry at the University of Washington, called the study "good science," bolstering his view that salvage logging almost never contributes to ecological recovery of a forest.
But John Sessions, professor of forest engineering at OSU, said the ultimate test of leaving a forest alone would be how many seedlings survive to maturity while competing with brush that will not be controlled unless dead trees are sold to pay for it.