It's getting so thick around here that it's hard to pick out an actual factual professional practioner of "sustainable forestry" like you from all the self-annointed riff-raff of pseudo "experts!"
Good to see you here regardless!!! This site needs good authentic productive people like you, Sir!!!
You're right about the off the wall comments here.
This subject can attract the most stupid of the stupid who end up advocating communism or fascism, or outright theft, to "save the trees." These people know less than nothing about forests and even less than that about private property and individual rights.
Let's see, I have pictures of my property from 1906. It was largely bare ground. Now, one hundred years later, it's covered with forest. See? Trees are a sustainable and renewable resource, pop up all by themselves without the help of Freeper fascists and their Sierra Club apparatchnik brothers.
I have huge cedars on the property probably 200 years old. And right next to them grow little cedars. Oh my gosh, replacements. And the government fascists didn't order me to grow them. The trees did it all by themselves.
And if people want to "preserve" some tract of forest or a pretty topography, go buy it.
And Forester does indeed know his trees. We need to see him around more often.