Bush administration pushes to quadruple California logging

SJ Mercury News ^ | 3/6/03 | Lisa M. Krieger

[NormsRevenge]

New recommendations crafted by the Bush administration could quadruple the amount of logging in the 11 million acres of national forests in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range.

The U.S. Forest Service recommendations, released Thursday, conclude that the Clinton administration's landmark plan to manage national forests, called the ``Sierra Nevada Framework,'' is too restrictive to allow effective and economical fire control.

[NormsRevenge]

Ping

[Spruce]

Objective Journalism. Not.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I can think of some dead wood around hollywood.

[Carry_Okie]

It's not enough to save the forest.

[afz400]

You can bet most of the wood will be put on board Chinese owned ocean going sawmills to make furniture in China by workers paid 35 cents an hour, putting thousands of American furniture workers out of business. The rest of the wood will go to Japan, where they store the logs under water so they will have a supply when all our hardwood is gone and all we have left is pine.

[marsh2]

A canopy is what it seems - the overstory or vegetation cover from the tops and branches of trees. Go into a forest. Look up. An 85% canopy, which is the standard we are held to locally, means only 15% of sunlight is allowed to filter into the forest for things growing on the forest floor. Not a lot grows in that kind of shade. The big trees grow because their tops are in the sun.

The problem with an 85% canopy requirement, besides not being naturally achievable in our area, is that fire travels through it really really fast.

A lower canopy allows sunlight to enter, young trees to grow and fire to drop to the forest floor, where it is more easily managed and contained.

[joesnuffy]

That is exactly what the Japs are doing...and then they all sell it back to us...
through Wall Mart

[Mister Baredog]

You can bet most of the wood will be put on board Chinese owned ocean going sawmills to make furniture in China

Gee I immediately thought maybe it could go to building more houses for Americans. The housing market is pretty strong and the last time I looked they still make houses out of WOOD

[Hugin]

Backing off an earlier proposal, the U.S. Forest Service's five-person review team dropped a plan to log one to two-acre plots in the forests.

Too bad. Any hunter can tell you that small clear cuts and burns help create abundent wildlife. It's not destroying forests, it's creating meadows.

[irish guard]

Do you realize how much wood there is in the United States? WE have an indefatigable supply.......as for the Chinese workers putting the American worker out of business....it is difficult to compete against cheap labor. but that is the way all economies work.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

EARTH FIRST! We'll log the other planets later...

[farmfriend]

pinging or should I say sawing.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Grampa Dave]

This is typical of the typical left wing maggot infested enviral mantra pusher posing as a reporter:

Log 32,500 of the 4 million acres of old-growth Sierra Nevada forests. In these forests, which represent .7 percent of Sierra forests, no large trees would be logged. Small and medium-sized trees -- less than 30 inches in diameter -- would be logged.

If they are less than 30 inches in diameter, they are not old growth.

This is like the redwood trees the tree sitters are in on private property up in the Eureka area. Those trees have been logged 2-3 times, and the trees the sitters are in are trees growing from the original stumps. Most are about the age of the maggots in the trees.

These enviral maggots would claim that a yearling tree is old growth.

[doug from upland]

Good news. Rather than allowing the forests to be decimated by fire, we get to use some of that wood to build houses as well as save many little creatures. It's a win-win.

[countrydummy]

bump!