“…we have done a great job of reducing logging with an emphasis on protecting the environment..”
Really?? Is the cost worth it? We have uncontrolled wildfires and communities that have been relegated to welfare communities dependant on Congress for handouts to maintain critical services. Community pride & cultural identity have been taken away for the sake of an owl, a bird, it turns out, that nests just as well in young timber & even barns. This not only eliminated logging but loggers as well. The same loggers who put out fires. This wasn’t about brids, toads, or whatever the species of the day, but, as the author points out, it was about “doing a great job reducing (eliminating?) logging”. Now we have idle communities and forests that are growing new wood at ten times the amount being harvested, so now we have forests reaching catastrophic scales. In the ’80’s we had more trees then when Lewis & Clark first stepped foot in the Northwest, now forest density is critical. I hope all of you in the big cities feel good about saving the species of the day in your desire to shut down the forests. Becuase of your short-sightedness you will now watch them, & the species you tried to protect, burn. There are only two ways to manage forests: Man’s, thru controlled, targeted harvesting, or Mother Nature’s, thru uncontrolled, catastrophic wildfire. We will have one or the other
“…we have done a great job of reducing logging with an emphasis on protecting the environment..”
Really?? Is the cost worth it? We have uncontrolled wildfires and communities that have been relegated to welfare communities dependant on Congress for handouts to maintain critical services. Community pride & cultural identity have been taken away for the sake of an owl, a bird, it turns out, that nests just as well in young timber & even barns. This not only eliminated logging but loggers as well. The same loggers who put out fires. This wasn’t about brids, toads, or whatever the species of the day, but, as the author points out, it was about “doing a great job reducing (eliminating?) logging”. Now we have idle communities and forests that are growing new wood at ten times the amount being harvested, so now we have forests reaching catastrophic scales. In the ’80’s we had more trees then when Lewis & Clark first stepped foot in the Northwest, now forest density is critical. I hope all of you in the big cities feel good about saving the species of the day in your desire to shut down the forests. Becuase of your short-sightedness you will now watch them, & the species you tried to protect, burn. There are only two ways to manage forests: Man’s, thru controlled, targeted harvesting, or Mother Nature’s, thru uncontrolled, catastrophic wildfire. We will have one or the other
In the comment I sent you today I made a typo on my book title, should be to not you like this
The Homeowner’s Guide to Wildfire Prevention.
-Robert Sieben