[george76]

Logging is done but the word is not mentioned.

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[george76]

[goldstategop]

Liberals have managed to halt logging. Thus allowing pest infestation to run rampant through our forests, creating a veritable wildfire hazard. Now THAT's the definition of ecological sanity!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[theDentist]

Does fire threat drop as trees fall?

Does a bear poop in the woods? Wait, gotta move these trees outta the way to find out.

[SunkenCiv]

oldie from Popular Mechanics:

The Tree Solution
by Jim Wilson

As Greenpeace expanded to become the world's largest international environmental organization, Moore's star steadily rose and he eventually became vice president of research. Then he did something even more unexpected than joining the organization in the first place. He packed up and quit... In the months before his departure, Moore had begun talking heresy. "The environmental movement had gone astray and lost its perspective on forests," Moore says. "Rather than cutting fewer trees and using less wood, we should be growing more trees and using more wood." Greenpeace branded him an eco-Judas. Now comes the biggest surprise of all. Recently published research suggests that Moore is right. Cutting down old trees could be the best way to thwart global warming.

[fish hawk]

Not only do the trees need the thinning but most of the underbrush has to be removed. It is more dangerous than the trees. I was raised in timber country in N. Calif. and hated “clear cutting”. There is no reason that smart logging can’t be done. (Selective cutting)

[SuziQ]

It wasn't clear until the end of the story WHY they're removing all these trees. Sounds like there's a pine beetle infestation that has already killed the trees, they're just removing them so they won't act like giant matches moving a fire along, if one starts.

Prudent measure, I'd say.