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"During this period of active harvest and overall intensive management, overmature trees were cut and young forests were started and overstocking was controlled by thinning."

This type of management was known as "Conservation". The environmentalist movement ended the proper use and management of forests in the U.S. and replaced the conservationists in the USFS with the neurotic socialists that are wearing ranger hats now.

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But John Muir was addressing the issue of Sustainability as long ago as 1870, in his articles, books and political campaigns. And he did more than just write, he fought long and bitter battles to save the redwoods, the watersheds and the great rivers of the West and to create the national parks, the forest reserves and the whole infrastructure of American conservation.