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Jon wrote:
> "SMITH29" <smith29@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> Jon wrote:
>>> "SMITH29" <smith29@comcast.net> wrote
>>>> Reforestation plants trees in those strips and in 20-30 years the
>>>> old growth strip is harvested.
>>> "Old growth" is generally considered longer than 20-30 years.
>> xxxx
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_growth_forest
>> Correct, The old growth I refer to is the old growth next to the strip 
>> that was farmed 20-30 years ago.
> 
> In not long order, there won't be large expanses of old
> growth forest left.  It's not sustainable harvested since
> it by definition takes 100s of years to return.
> 
> But perhaps even more broadly, the infrastructure to
> support such strip logging includes roads which alter
> the essential nature of the area.  The finite resource is
> roadlessness.  The arguments for preserving old growth
> forest can be separated from the arguments for preserving
> roadless areas.  Not all roadless areas are old growth
> forests.  Not all such areas are forested at all.
> 
>> We have a few big trees around here
>> http://www.arthurleej.com/a-peninsulatrees.html
> 
> Yes.  ONP Tree Museum?  %^)  Admission is more
> than the $1.50 of the song.
> 
> Parks are a good thing.  But maybe we can do more
> than the European model.  Perhaps we already have,
> if only by relative youth of large scale occupation and
> development and by the initial volume of resources.
> 
> There will be less in the future.
> 
>>> Read _Last Chance to See_ [ISBN-13: 978-0345371980]
>>> From 1992, but still entertaining and applicable to this topic.
> 
> You appear to have dropped the "use it or lose it" argument.
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
xxxx
Having spent 62 years in the same area and seeing proper management of 
the forest lands and game I would have to support managed lands for the 
ecology is in very good shape as compared to lands burnt off by forest 
fires and erosion that could have been greatly reduced in size by proper 
management.

Managed land provides recreation via access roads and camp grounds as 
well the harvesting of trees and the wildlife we put there for food.
We have a finite amount of land and we best manage it for if we neglect 
it, it's of no value to anyone.
We have wilderness areas set aside for retention of the natural state 
and the land we use is put to good use for the population.
That's how it's done in Washington State.

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