“One thousand years ago the United Kingdom was mostly forest. Today it is not. Man has changed the entire bio environment of this Island. The insane environmentalist think we should return to the “normal past” of unrestricted burning of our forests as it is “just natural.” It is natural and most devastating.”
The U.K. Is treeless because they harvested the trees for fuel, housing, and for shipbuilding. It wasn’t forest fires. In America New England was well on the way to being deforested like the U.K. and then the oil industry boomed along with coal and removed the need to burn trees for cooking and heating. The Arbor Society should be thanking God for the gift of fossil fuels.
I agree that logging is necessary and, if done right, has benefits to the forests. That being said many plants have evolved to only propagate seeds after being burnt and grow best in burnt areas. Some grasses, if fire does not burn away last year’s dead growth, can choke themselves off. Also most game animals that people like to hunt and eat cannot eat pine needles.
We have about 330 million people today as opposed to the few million at the beginning of colonization.