[Carry_Okie]

I do native plant habitat restoration. I can tell you for a fact that biodiversity and productivity cannot be optimized without harvesting. Every plant and animal produces more of its kind than the system can support without consumption, whether it be grazing, browsing, or predation. The same is true for the maintenance of the foundations of the marine food pyramid.

I lived on the water in an estuary for nine years. The flow of food into the water may not make it clean, but it sure as heck supports more life. People are capable of managing even that system on a spot by spot basis as a service to maintain those productive spawning and rearing systems, complete with metrology, telemetry, information systems, validation, and risk management architectures.

THAT is a 21st Century idea. "Preservation" per se, has become a demonstrably backward and destructive model.

[RedMonqey]

I do native plant habitat restoration. I can tell you for a fact that biodiversity and productivity cannot be optimized without harvesting.

I understand completely. I live on our family farm and every twenty years or so we harvest the woodland part of our property. Not clear cutting, we take out the largest trees before they die and rot. It opens up the floor and allows new growth to sprout, some plants are crowded out because the sunlight is blocked by the more mature trees of a single species. Cutting allows for diversity. It good for the deer and other animals and allows younger trees to grow and helps prevents fires from accelerating. It also helps with the farm budget.