["Meanwhile, Forest Service officers and local police will monitor the logging for protests, Brown said. "If they're breaking the law, we'll take action." The Ruffed Grouse Society, a Pittsburgh-based conservation group that receives funding from the timber industry, supports the Forest Service plan.']
[""There's probably 70 species of just songbirds that require young forest habitat," said Mark Banker, a wildlife biologist who works for the group. "And the only way to create that habitat is to cut trees and let the little ones grow back.""]
They got them to cut back on the ammount of acre's they were going to harvest.
Even the ruffed grouse society supports and understands the need for some logging.
I can't give support to group's that are so radical that they can't see where some logging is needed.
Time to cut the net and drop ( Clinger's) out of the tree's .
I'm sure the clinger's and hugger's will move on to something else to make there life worth living.
Rogue- Where did I say burn down large tracts of land? All I stated was that fire is another tool that can be used to regenerate tress. Are you saying I'm wrong? If these systems evolved (yes evolution occurs on multiple spatial/temporal scales)with fire why wouldn't they be healthier with fire as part of the process? Some plant species require fire to regenerate. That is something that logging, to my knowledge, is unable to replicate. In addition, smaller, more frequent fires in some forest types lead to a more robust understory which creates more food for wildlife and livestock. Is that bad?
Logging is needed and I understand that and condone good logging practices, but logging is not a 'magic bullet' to cure the problems of 100yrs of fire suppression and poor logging practices.