Posted on 10/26/2019 9:07:55 AM PDT by Mariner
We also have politicians, even democrat politicians, who used to be against logging, but now have seen the light that it is not a good idea to have millions of beetle killed trees just standing around until they burn.
Over the last ten years we have built a small but productive and necessary logging industry. Our beetle killed wood, once thought to be unsellable, has even turned into a fashion statement.
And, of course, common sense ideas like brush clearing under the power lines and forest management and grooming never enter the brains of the Gavin Newsom types. There is the poor Malaysian leaping lemur habitat that we must preserve at all costs.
I can’t help but think that someone wants to depopulate California.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnZBmqTCNh4
Good video on forestry mulchers and what they do and why they do it.
BTW, to all the naysayers, the Timberpro WILL go up 50% grades with out tethering. If tethered, they will nearly go up 80% grades.
The whole GD thing is a political ploy to gain complete political power over the general populations. And I bet the voters in those area’s are conservative.
The Timber companies used to manage the forests on our behalf.
All they wanted were the logs in exchange.
They would cut 2-3% every year, and then replant. And manage the forest floor to avoid fire and disease.
They built and maintained roads throughout.
Every checkerboard clear cut was a fire break.
And it was all “sustainable”.
The decision to end logging in CA is the genesis of our current situation.
Well...that is true for merchantable forests.
But then you have the brush lands. Those have to be dealt with by another method.
Right now, as I type this, they are taking merchantable wood down to 3 and one half inches for stud wood. They saw those 2X3s out of that small stuff.
Then comes the chip wood. Do you know that anything over a certain size..say 36 to 40 inches gets taken in for chip wood? I saw that first hand in ORE a year ago last summer. A six log load going for chip wood because there was only a couple of mills that could handle large diameter logs.
As for the brush lands? BIOMASS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-11yXWMqjSg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6AyKQOY4C0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTcQ-O90944
They also make steam boiler systems that use a backdraft turbine system to produce electric power as well as heat buildings.
Or make systems to simply produce electric power. All operated by a couple of people with their smart phones.
Yes. That's absolutely their objective. I moved from there in 2005 and I remember enviroNazis who were pantheists who wanted kalifornia to revert to the pristine wilderness like it was before human habitation. They believe in spirits in trees and dandelions and delta smelts and bullfrogs, for example.
Lunatics.
Power may be out but I bet the people will get their bills in the mail where the electric company has over charged them like they do here in Los Angeles area.
Well if they do depopulate California a lot of leftist representatives will be out of a job! Congress should improve. Every cloud, silver lining....
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