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“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
John 16:33 (King James Version)
The latest version of the Forestry Management Plan is a complete disaster for the forests due to it either ignoring or negligently ignoring the two main reasons for the plan to exist. The plan completely ignores the fact the Spotted Owl is becoming extinct due to predators rather than Old Growth Forest reductions and it has no mention of forest fires in any of its modeling which is the main reason the forests are being destroyed.
It appears the plan was designed by politicians who wanted to gain favor from their friends and family by worshiping the forests rather than managing them. It fails to mention the Spotted Owl is being hunted and killed by the Barred Owl which migrated from the Midwest to the West Coast and is a very aggressive predator which is killing the Spotted owl to gain territory and a food source.
The Forest Service has proposed to hire Barred Owl bounty hunters to shoot the ballooning numbers of Barred owls to protect the Spotted Owl. The Federal Forest Service wants to kill over 500,000 Barred Owls in an attempt to save their beloved Spotted Owl. Not only is the Forest Service trying to pick and choose species in the forest they are attempting an impossible tactic to hunt these owls in the forests against impossible odds. Who are they going to hire to do their dirty work, out of work loggers who were put out of work by the fake Spotted Owl studies?
How are these hunters going to be able to hunt a bird which has the perfect camouflage method in the middle of the forests at night? The same people who want to kick the loggers and hunters out of the forests are going to try to train hunters to hunt a small night owl in a tangle of trees. There is no possible way they can make a significant difference in the deaths of Spotted Owls using this hope and prayer bounty program.
The Spotted Owl is being hunted into extinction by a predator and no matter how much anyone wishes it will not happen these owls are going to continue to be hunted for territorial and feeding reasons. This is exactly what Darwin’s theory explained about survival of the fittest.
The logger has no effect on whether these owls live or die although he plan pretends the logger is the sole reason of their extinction and being punished the most.
The second mistake in the plan is the complete dismissal of massive forest fires spreading across Oregon forests.
These forests are being destroyed by the Forest Service by not properly managing them. Rather than thinning, harvesting, and rotating forests as been done in the past this plan calls for the continued killing of the forests by mismanaging them to the point of being overgrown thickets waiting for a spark to turn into a massive furnace scorching everything in its path.
The tree worshipers believe chainsaw bad, forest fires good and is the way they think over the past forty years. They would rather have a 500 square mile forest fire than to have a single tree cut down by a chainsaw. It sounds virtuous if you do not care about results but is just the opposite of how you take care of a forest. If you care about clean air and water then you need to make the forests as healthy as possible to produce the most oxygen and water filtering/water holding roots possible. Any other outcome is a failure.
A medium to large forest fire will produce more CO2 and actual pollutants than a years’ worth of car emissions in Oregon, Washington, and California. You would think the Forest plan would call for the properly managed forests with young vibrant trees resistant to fire and producing as much oxygen as possible, but this plan does just the opposite and is a death sentence to the forests.
This plan ignores these two facts and blames every forest issue on the Climate Change umbrella. The assumed draught will cause all sorts of catastrophes and is being used as an excuse to close the forests down to protect them when it will do just the opposite.
The past two years have been fire free due to the fact these have been the wettest and coldest years on the West Coast in the past twenty years. They were the shortest summers with only a couple days over a hundred and snowpacks over 50 feet all the way down to California closing down ski resorts due to too much snow which came early and left late.
Without addressing the Spotted Owl inevitability or the forest fire destruction of the Oregon resources this plan is not worth the paper it is written on. Unfortunately, the implementation of this program will cost the state billions if not trillions of dollars in lost revenue and dead trees as well as poorer quality air and water. This plan is definition of penny wise and pound foolish.
This is exactly what happens when you worship the trees rather than managing them properly. This is what happens when man creates a religion which worships God’s creation rather than the Creator of the universe. This is the problem with forty years of the DNC in firm control of your forests and state. They have lied about the Spotted Owl from the beginning and have now been exposed so they are doing whatever they can to keep the lie alive by massacring another owl to protect their politically weaponized owl.
Pray for Oregon
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.