Absolutely. Old growth is eternal. It never changes. The trees never die.......
WHAT is "old growth" to you? Does it have to be dead and dying? Or can it just be old, and ready to bite the dust in a windstorm?
" About half of those sales included old-growth logging
If this is true, and I am dubious, then I would NOT support logging these acres. Nonetheless, the judge cannot just make rulings like this. There is no reason to log old growth, even if the timber companies want to. 2nd and 3rd growth is fine."
Harvesting old growth is not economical on a large scale. Modern head rigs cannot handle the size of the logs.
Only antiquated equipment can handle wood that size and the wasteage is as high as 10% to 20% debending on the size of the saw blade.
In Canada the most efficient mills are processing second and third growth wood.
You don't know what the f**k you are talking about. Old growth needs to be logged right along with the rest of the forest. We take care of our forest in this country and have since the early 1900s. The lumber industry in this country was doing fine until the idiotic liberals stepped in with their plan to ruin America and we are letting them get away with it thanks to dumb sh**ts like yourself.