[stormer]

You are quite right. Kills fish, and increases dredging costs and water treatment costs. There are a number of relatively simple and inexpensive BMPs designed to alleviate sediment runoff, but when profit is your only concern, why bother?

[roamer_1]

You are quite right. Kills fish, and increases dredging costs and water treatment costs. There are a number of relatively simple and inexpensive BMPs designed to alleviate sediment runoff, but when profit is your only concern, why bother?

Nonsense. I put in logging roads twenty years ago or better. Properly ditching and culvert installation was paramount, not only to Fed, State, and private owners, but was inherently important to the road builder. Roads are expensive to maintain or reinstall, so care was taken to preserve the road, with the expectation that it would be used for access again in the future.

Once the road settles in, there is very little runoff, because the drainage works to preserve the road.

But now that logging is non-existent, those roads are no longer passable. The machinery once owned by the loggers and road-builders that used to be employed on those roads to fight fire is gone too. You want to see runoff problems? See what a quarter-million acres of burnt forest produces.

Alongside of that, your position is cry-baby BS.