Straight Arrow
Well-known member
Sytes, the link is informative and your description of the issue succinctly expresses the economic problem(s). However, even if the logging and timber industry ramped up to a level beyond what it was a few decades ago, forest management would not result in the neatly thinned, open forests depicted in BigHornRam's link ... the public forest lands are just too vast for that to be realistic. Many would point to the forest management of the significantly less amount of forest in Europe as the model, but that is not realistic either, nor do we necessarily want that "domesticated" wildland scenario. Furthermore, it obviously has resulted in the model for hunting extremely different from the North American Wildlife Conservation Model which supports our highly valued hunting privilege. Extensive timber harvesting would not make much of a difference during severe drought and the high summer temperatures such as we are currently experiencing.
When we conjecture about how we can mitigate wildfires by increasing logging, opening the mills, changing the lumber trade agreements, stopping all the frivolous litigation, thinning and cleaning our forests, and such attempts ... Mother Nature merely smiles and once again is amused at the egocentric silly self-aggrandizement of man.
When we conjecture about how we can mitigate wildfires by increasing logging, opening the mills, changing the lumber trade agreements, stopping all the frivolous litigation, thinning and cleaning our forests, and such attempts ... Mother Nature merely smiles and once again is amused at the egocentric silly self-aggrandizement of man.
