[1tin_soldier]

And yet another enviro-liberal lie comes crashing down. TIM-BERRRRRRR!

[GVnana]

Well Duh. I guess it's not obvious to Easterners. Logging (when done prudently) helped the forests by thinning them and reducing fuel build-up. Somehow we Westerners can't convince the beltway enviro-wackos that the West is arid. We haven't allowed natural burns for a century because they wasted too much resources. (Let me explain for my damp Eastern deciduous forest bretheren: Fires start naturally, lightning strikes mostly. In natural forest, the fires burn ground fuels, brush, small trees, but never gain the intensity to burn larger trees and eradicate the entire forest.)

Now we have dense forest--in some places 10X the natural density-- and they go Poof! Thus we have the West's plague of catastrophic wildfires. And we can't even get timber out of the deal.

[glock rocks]

old growth ping.

[madfly]

ping

[madfly]

ping

[WaterDragon]

Fantastic article. And absolutely true.

[hedgetrimmer]

Well whaddya know? The enviromentalists are lying. Who'd a thunk it?

[tubebender]

This story is prettty ironic as this week Pacific Lumber is auctoning off the largest sawmill in the world as they have switched to small logs over the years. The only independent saw mill left here (there were over 500 mills in Humboldt county at one time) is running on logs barged here from Ore, Wash and NEW ZELAND. There are no veneer mills left in Calif as they require large clear logs.

Carry Okie is right about the large timber companys not wanting any timber from the USFS because it makes their trees more valuable.

The photo of the clump of Redwoods in COs post looks just like the trees in my front yard that are doing thousands of dollars damage to the foundation of our home. My grand son and I spent the last two weeks digging up roots and cutting a three foot section out to slow the destruction.

Humboldt County is the number one timber producing county in Calif and our economy has been in the tank since the late 70s.

[blackie]

Right-on !!

Stop the attacks on our Freedoms by the wacko, extreme left-wing, lunatic fringe, dirt worshipping Green Jihadist, enviro-nazis terrorist's and their toadies in the media !!

Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!

Molon Labe !!

FMCDH !!

F.I.R.E. !!

[Tailgunner Joe]

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