Oregon Department of Forestry is working on a plan to protect habitats for endangered species.
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BS those in the forestry industry plant more trees than they take down they know not to deplete their stock.
We have more trees now before the country was founded.
The unreported reality is that the USFS is doing everything in their power to transform all National Forests into Defacto National Parks.
Not parks with a little shack that collects fees for entry, but parks where there is no timber harvest or management, the elimination of grazing permits, closure of existing travel roads and elimination of new road construction and continuing the stupid concept of managing wildfire rather than fire suppression.
This is obvious on the NF in Idaho where I live and is an unstated management objective for all forests.
Our local forest “management” totally rejects the concept of timber harvest as a fire management tool, and every summer we have to endure the results.