October 2011
27 posts
Invention is a Mother of Necessity
Even if we made helicopters, of a sort, to hover through the canopies of the Sequoias, flames shooting from their wings to heat the cones like farmers heating grapes in the orchards in the frost, we would only get more Sequoias, which is what we hoped.
Sure, we’d avoid the ash and fury of the wildfires that typically do this job for us, free of charge. Costly, to be sure, in their...
