"Mark Trail" -- I'm becoming suspicious that this strip is _slightly_ anti-environmental.

A few months ago, there was a Mark Trail strip about elephants and how "their populations are increasing and encroaching on human developments, threatening them."

I thought it was the other way around.

This past Sunday, the strip by Dodd & Elrod was about forest fires. Here is part of the strip:

"Did you ever wonder what happens to all of the scorched and half-burned trees that are left ... quickly, before insects can attack the trees, private landowners and government agencies have the burned-over land full of harvesting crews ..."

Well, I think timber products should be harvested, too, but left out of this strip is the balance -- that fire has been a natural aspect of forests for millenia, and that logging isn't the salvation that Dodd & Elrod make it out to be.

Pat