Have They Started Cutting Trees...

[bigsky]

Originally posted by Lizking


Clear cutting is not a valid logging method, I do not think you will find anyone that disagrees with that.  Selective harvest, and the clearing of undergrowth, on the other hand, while not "natural" mimic what would happen naturally.

i do, clear cut is the best way to go. you have to put in the same amount of logging roads if you cut 100 trees or 10,000. clear cuts have to stay away from rivers and streams, fires dont. for example, if you were a butcher and somebody wanted to sell you a hog but they said, you can cut out the fat but you have to leave the ham and chops how interested would you be? not me, i want the whole hog. thats the only way ill turn a profit on the deal. most people have the wrong idea when it comes to the national forest service, its suposed to promote trees for harvest, for sale of course, for the federal govt.

[Lizking]

What if the someone offered the butcher a whole bunch of hogs and told him to just pick the big fat juicy ones and leave the runts?  There is nothing wrong with clearcutting, anyway, it is just the way it has been done that is the problem.

[capt. apathy]

Originally posted by bigsky
if you were a butcher and somebody wanted to sell you a hog but they said, you can cut out the fat but you have to leave the ham and chops how interested would you be? not me, i want the whole hog.  

they may want 'the whole hog' but it's not like we have any trouble selling the scraps.

a healthy forest with a harvest level that is sustainable should be the main priority.  not pleasing the timber industry.

if you really want to make a positive impact on the timber industry, write letters to your senators/Representatives and tell them you want an end to the overseas sale of raw timber.  we are losing timber industry jobs as the supply of harvestable trees dwindles (at least of a size our mills are tooled to process).  if we required the timber to be processed into lumber before it was sold over seas we would have other jobs opening in logging community's as the harvesting jobs are reduced.