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Hands-off forest management goes up in smoke
Register Guard ^ | October 10, 2017 | Nick Smith

Posted on 10/14/2017 8:24:07 AM PDT by Twotone

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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Clear cutting is the only method of logging in some scenarios. For instance, on steep terrain select cutting doesn't work because tractor types of machinery obviously can't be used.

Perhaps the average voter should inform themselves on the reasons and methods of and for clear cutting.

All of the clear cuts that I worked on 55 years ago are grown up, but need another 50 or so years before they can be harvested again.

21 posted on 10/14/2017 9:39:45 AM PDT by Parmy
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To: Wonder Warthog
PEOPLE might actually intrude into the area.

There was a story in the early 2000s about US Park Rangers complaining about air pollution from all the snowmobilers in the parks.

Some people are born under a dark cloud and never leave it, and want everybody else to be as miserable as they choose to be.

22 posted on 10/14/2017 9:40:58 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Fire regime condition class.

That’s what it’s called.

L


23 posted on 10/14/2017 9:41:36 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Alberta's Child
"Pine beetles don’t do fire drills."

No, but they can fly.

24 posted on 10/14/2017 9:43:40 AM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: Parmy

When he was VT governor, former POTUS candidate Howard Dean had his land clear cut ($$$), then banned (exec order or signed into law) clear cutting.


25 posted on 10/14/2017 9:43:58 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Lurker
Looks like their server is overwhelmed looking it up.


26 posted on 10/14/2017 9:44:24 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (You can't have totalitarian globalist government if the peasants are armed.)
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To: QBFimi

If you are ever in the Coeur d’Alene area, stop and see the fire exhibit at the Museum of North Idaho.


27 posted on 10/14/2017 9:46:53 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Flag_This

I’ve seen the same in Idaho. They probably need to do controlled burns in the winter to clear these trees. Then plant something not so susceptible to that beetle. Assuming such exists.


28 posted on 10/14/2017 10:24:40 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Some clear cutting can be better for the land. Problem now is that bark beetles have left millions of board feet of standing deadwood in our forests. Two things can heal our forests... logging, or humongous forest fires.


29 posted on 10/14/2017 10:28:43 AM PDT by D Rider
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To: Flag_This
I spent some time in Colorado and northern California this summer. I could not believe the number of beetle-killed trees I saw. Thousands of dead and dry trees, waiting for a spark. They were everywhere and in many areas that looked to me to be totally inaccessible to anything less than a helicopter, so I don’t know how the threat can be cost-effectively removed.

Colorado is a mixed bag. On the one hand, I have heard that bad forestry practices are what allowed the beetles to be able to spread so badly. On the other hand, pretty early on, normal people won out over environmentalists and changed the rules to allow logging of the dead trees.

There is a whole industry that has grown for the last ten years of companies turning these diseased trees into wood pellets for wood stoves and other products. When they started logging beetle kill trees about ten years ago, nobody thought there would be an industry outside of wood pellets, because the beetles stain the wood. But stained wood has become fashionable now, and so many companies use it.

Sustainable Lumber Company

Mountain Heart Woodworks

30 posted on 10/14/2017 11:36:28 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Wonder Warthog

The FS, notwithstanding their “visit the forest” ads, is all about keeping their roads closed.


31 posted on 10/14/2017 12:35:41 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Vince Ferrer
"There is a whole industry that has grown for the last ten years of companies turning these diseased trees into wood pellets for wood stoves and other products."

I was told they basically have a two year window to get any useful lumber from a beetle-killed tree, but I don't know if that applies if they're going to turn the tree into pellets. On the other hand, if they're going to turn the tree into wood pellets, I don't know if it's worth in monetarily to go after trees that are very difficult to reach.

32 posted on 10/14/2017 12:44:59 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: Twotone

Praise The LORD!!! How many died with their foolishness. So very, very sad.


33 posted on 10/14/2017 3:50:12 PM PDT by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus?)
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To: Flag_This
Not every tree can be reached profitably, but a lot can. The ones that can't be reached are a fire hazard, but logging the ones that can be reached reduces the forest fire danger. This company has been in business for ten years now.

Confluence Energy

34 posted on 10/14/2017 6:10:01 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

That was an interesting link. Thanks!


35 posted on 10/14/2017 6:22:34 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: Calvin Locke

Access to our National Parks is also under perpetual attack. I have extremely fond memories of going hiking with my family back in the 60’s up trails off the Westside Road on Mount Rainier. The road was “temporarily” closed after a rockslide one year, then never reopened.


36 posted on 10/18/2017 9:07:35 AM PDT by RainMan (rainman)
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