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Article #1273Re: Bush Opens Roadless Tongass National Forest to Logging
From: SMITH29
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:52
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:52
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maguahiker@gmail.com wrote: >> xxxx >> So you would be happy without wood products ? >> >>> Unfortunately now that we are in the picture. It is far more difficult >>> to justify allowing her to run her coarse. Essentially it is a >>> Catch-22. No one will win. >> xxxx >> Our forest programs have been working as well as our game management >> programs. >> Visit a forest and a game farm and see for yourself. >> The one think you don't mention is nature is chaos and we instill some >> order to our natural resources. >> >> 29 >> >> > > > I think I was making a generalized statement and not attacking any > particular post here so don't take it personally. Nature isn't > chaos...it is nature. Natural. Forest fires do things management > cannot...many tree diseases have been controlled through naturally > occuring forest fires. They provide a entirely different humus and > base for items to grow that cannot be found otherwise. It provides > ideal heating and condtions to allow for various seedlings and spores > to begin growth. This cannot me done with management entirely. There > are things that occur in nature that we cannot no matter how hard we > try scientifically, we cannot make them occur to the large extent > needed for forests to actually survive. I have been to many a > management farm, lake, etc..I see the good work they provide. I simply > don't think they can do it all and they sure aren't properly funded to > do what they fully need to try and do. > > Man has always used wood products and always will. But it was a matter > of using what you need and not to excess. It is simply how efficient > they use them. If we would do it by industry standards...hell they > would clear cut from shore to shore without using any sense of ethics > or rationale. I understand the concept of management and very much am > interested in the science of expanding the possibilities of restoring > what little order and allowing some control for environmental > concerns. I am simply stating that trees and nature were here far > before we were and we can't expect to even for a moment believe that > we will instill some order to nature. We don't control it. We live > with it. there is a difference that a ton in the industry don't > realize. xxxx You smokin weed!!! > > like I said. It is a catch-22. You're damned if you do and damned if > you don't. No one is winning this game. I just look at past examples > like Chernobyl area...man devistated it and although it is highly > damaged from the incident...if you look at reports now...nature has > gradually reclaimed the land, the buildings, the area...animals > return...etc.
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