I am not looking for a fight I was looking for you to back up your statement. I often read your Brays because they are interesting. I was surprised when you wrote:
“Without the thinning and harvesting of older weaker trees as well as thinning and spacing of young trees the forests choke themselves out and die.”
I thought that was a very odd statement because clearly many forest live without man taking care of them. I have a home and live winter and summer in a jungle of central america and on the 80 acres I live on no one clears them and they live just fine. I have lived in Northern California and spent a lot of times in the Redwoods, some are 100s and sometimes a thousand years old. No one cleared them until the San Francisco earthquake and they did just fine. I thought it was a very odd statement.
I apologize if you think it was snarky but your statement is just not true, so I asked you my question, since you wrote it I assumed you could back up your statement. Sorry if I hurt your feelings.
You are comparing apples to oranges. These forests are mostly manmade which were planted decades ago and need constant management. Without constant thinning and harvesting you will not have healthy forests. Your forests are not our forests.
I don’t have time to argue with people who have liberal agendas.