Posted on 11/18/2024 12:29:58 PM PST by mac_truck
U.S. officials would allow increased logging on federal lands across the Pacific Northwest in the name of fighting wildfires and boosting rural economies under proposed changes to a sweeping forest management plan that's been in place for three decades.
The U.S. Forest Service proposal, released Friday, would overhaul the Northwest Forest Plan that governs about 38,000 square miles (99,000 square kilometers) in Oregon, Washington and California.
The plan was adopted in 1994 under President Bill Clinton amid pressure to curb destructive logging practices that resulted in widespread clearcuts and destroyed habitat used by spotted owls. Timber harvests dropped dramatically in subsequent years, spurring political backlash.
But federal officials now say worsening wildfires due to climate change mean forests must be more actively managed to increase their resiliency. Increased logging also would provide a more predictable supply of trees for timber companies, officials said, helping rural economies that have suffered after lumber mills shut down and forestry jobs disappeared.
The proposal could increase annual timber harvests by at least 33% and potentially more than 200%, according to a draft environmental study. The number of timber-related jobs would increase accordingly.
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Forest fires are being caused by forest mismanagement because the Sierra Club owns the Forest Service.
Works every time it’s tried. Go look and see the job the White Mountain Apache did to their land. They studied the appearance of how the forest naturally looked back in the 1800s. It looked a lot different then than it looked once all of the wildfires started. Until they were trimmed out by the Apaches, you couldn’t see the forest for the trees.
The plan was adopted in 1994 under President Bill Clinton amid pressure to curb destructive logging practices that resulted in widespread clearcuts and destroyed habitat used by spotted owls.
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Clear cut logging sections were always replanted, but from a distance looked barren, until a few years passed.
The Spotted Owl habitat is fake. Spotted Owls nest where ever they want. Forests not needed. Same for the Marbled Murrelet which digs borrows and does not need old grown forest to survive.
The whole thing was (looking back) a way to bring America down by the far left.
Gee, they finally figured it out.
“”U.S. officials would allow increased logging on federal lands across the Pacific Northwest in the name of fighting wildfires and boosting rural economies “”
Increased logging.
Nooo kidding, really?
How many decades has it been for the pink fairies with (wimpy) man buns and blue hair EVER listened to common sense?
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When there is less fuel to burn in a forest, fires do not spread as aggressively. The Tubbs fire in Sonoma County in 2017 was devastating because there was 50 years of dried rotten wood. PG&E was of course blamed for the fire and perhaps that was partially correct. But the blame must be on the woke idea that they worship the forest as a god. Thus, one cannot touch the forest because it’s holy - Yuk. Incredibly, in South Lake Tahoe they actually thin out the forest and clean the dead debris to protect it from destruction such as the fire in 2022. When a forest is harvested wisely, it actually protects the remaining trees by providing them more water and sun light.
Trees have a lifetime. They sprout, grow, get old, die, and fall down.
Periodic thinning of the forest will remove the deadwood.
We should also do that in DC.
“But federal officials now say worsening wildfires due to climate change mean forests must be more actively managed to increase their resiliency. “
These twisted freaks! Climate change my ass. Even when they rarely do the right thing they can’t do it for the right reasons.
Clear cutting is required for Douglas Fir to regrow.
Douglas Fir are not shade tolerant. Their seedlings will not grow if they are in the shade of a larger tree. This is the main reason behind clear cutting. It is the correct forestry practice to regrow the species that is worth the most money for the land owner.
What nonsense! The only reason anyone would want to harvest wood from a forest is to enact the Trump agenda, and that is to put black people back in chains!
(That is about as cogent reasoning as you can expect from the greenies...)
The Spotted Owl was just a surrogate used to stop logging on Federal lands.
Just like they are using fish species to push for the removal of dams on rivers in various states.
Take a drive from Northern California to Washington State. Nothing nut trees as far as the eye can see.
Most forest firs are either lightening or man. Nothing to do with climate change.
Folks, this person’s statement confirms that Woke follows Free Republic’s Patriots and sometimes make the stupid mistake of commenting.
Agreed. As I said.
As long as the logging/lumber/forestry jobs come back to these rural areas, I'm good with it...but you're absolutely right.
Clear cutting is required for Douglas Fir to regrow. Douglas Fir are not shade tolerant
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BS - Doug fir often is found growing under alder and cedar as the forest transitions from deciduous to coniferous. Had lots of seeding fur growing on my 30 acre forest tract - all grew up to be harvestable. All started under alder and cedar trees.
Clear cut plantings make faster fur growth, but weaker wood. Old grown fur grew slower due to soil and shade with tree rings dense & tightly packed. New or second growth grows so fast that the rings are wide and thick, making weak wood
Disolve the Forest Service.
The Spotted Owl was just a surrogate used to stop logging on Federal lands.
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It as not a surrogate; it was a deliberate lie, designed to make the unknowing public feel sorry for the critters, and so bring pressure on politicians to halt logging.
Same applied to the Marbled Muirelet, whose life cycle was unknown at the time, but assumed to live in old growth forests, but actually lived in borrows (in accordance with its Latin name).
This salt water feeding bird had a Federally made up life cycle used to halt commercial salmon fishing in Puget Sound, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The gillnet design/building rules only applied to US non-Indian fishermen, not to Canadian fishermen, or the the US Treaty Tribes.
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